Sorry, Justice League Dark fans, the DCU's upcoming Swamp Thing movie won't be connected to the wider franchise. Well, if director James Mangold can help it, anyway ...

As well as a Star Wars movie exploring the origin of the Jedi set 25,000 years in the past, Mangold has been tapped by DC Studios to take the helm of Swamp Thing. The character has starred in a ...

Mangold will enter the James Gunn-run DCU for the first time by creating a new world for the character of Swamp Thing in a feature film. The director, however, is no stranger to superhero movies ...

James Mangold wants to “say something original” with ‘Swamp Thing’. The 61-year-old director is set to helm the movie about the comic book monster for DC Studios, though he has insisted ...

and that will be directly felt in his Swamp Thing adaptation. The filmmaker, who's also enjoyed plenty of success in recent times with movies like Ford v Ferrari and A Complete Unknown ...

The 1980s Swamp Thing movies directed by Wes Craven and Jim Wynorski were low-budget, campy affairs that did little to move the needle on the character’s popularity. Meanwhile, the 1991 Swamp ...

“Usually, the movies you remember are the ones that move you.” Whether Swamp Thing has a future in the DCU will likely depend on a variety of factors, including how Mangold’s film performs ...

James Mangold is sticking to his plans that his Swamp Thing movie is a standalone project, and not the launch of a new franchise. He went on to add, “While I’m sure DC views Swamp Thing as a ...

With the latter on board, the movie is raking up excitement amongst fans as the director reveals that his plans about Swamp Thing do not involve dwelling on turning it into a franchise.

"While I'm sure DC views Swamp Thing as a franchise, I would be viewing it as a very simple, clean, Gothic horror movie about this man/monster… Just doing my own thing with this, just a standalone." ...