James Mangold offered some more details and thoughts on the Swamp thing film he is developing for DC Studios. The director has previously described the film as a “very simple, clean gothic horror film”. He also explained that the film is inspired by the classic story of Frankenstein. When it comes to approach James Gunn AND Peter Safran on the idea of making the film, he told ComicBook:
Basically, the moment I heard that DC was going through a leadership seizure and James was taking over, I saw it as an opportunity to tip my hat to the top — I mean, I just called them and said : “In all the things you’re doing, if the idea of me making a gothic horror movie, Swamp Thing’s origin story fits, tell me.
The director went on to say that he doesn’t have an agenda to build a cinematic universe for Swamp Thing, he just has a story he wants to tell. He compares it to RoboCop,:
It’s no different from what anyone else does with me; I have no plans for a universe, I’m not building towards someone who will unite in a future. Go for it, but I’d just be interested in saying, I’ve always been interested in doing a version of Frankenstein, basically, and, yet, I feel, ‘he IS alive!’ enough has been done, but Swamp Thing always came to me as this wonderful version of a Frankenstein story, very similar to one of my favorite pop movies growing up, RoboCop, the original one. This guy who just woke up and was turned into, he finds out he’s become this machine, that was also something that fascinated me about Logan, of course.
Mangold went on to say that he likes the idea of making Swamp Thing a “noir, mystery, horror film about a guy who wakes up and it’s this thing.” He added:
“There’s an amnesiac quality of, ‘How did I get here and who did this to me?’ So I’m imagining a noir-horror film that follows a creature that can’t be seen, trying to piece together fragments of memories, what happened and who did it. And none of that is at odds with Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson and all the great work that has gone on… I’m just putting it in a new cinematic context, but that’s everything they were exploring in these comics and so beautifully. “
I absolutely love the direction Mangold is trying to take the story, and it’s going to be amazing Swamp thing movie!
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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