00:00James Mangold may be one of the first writer-directors to join James Gunn and Peter Safran's roster of filmmakers at DC Studios.
00:09Mangold is in talks to take on the feature adaptation of Swamp Thing, the supernatural horror-based hero who is a focal point in the first chapter of DC Studios Slate.
00:19Gunn and Safran unveiled their slate on Tuesday. Here's what Gunn had to say about Swamp Thing, which was the last of the ten projects talked about.
00:26A very dark horror story in the origins of the monster who is Swamp Thing.
00:32Gunn shared that although Swamp Thing is tonally outside of the rest of the DC Universe, it will still feed into the other stories.
00:39Sources say that talks with Mangold are still in the early stages.
00:43But on Tuesday night, Mangold tweeted an image of Swamp Thing, and Gunn retweeted the post, suggesting that the talks were heading in a hopeful direction.
00:51It's unclear if Mangold would write and direct Swamp Thing or just direct.
00:55The filmmaker tends to do both on his film projects, including his previous foray into comic book movies, 2017's Logan,
01:02as well as his upcoming film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which will be released on June 30th.
01:08I've come to believe it's not so much what you believe, it's how hard you believe it.
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