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James Mangold is set to join the DC and Star Wars universes. The filmmaker recently offered an update on the movies he intends to make for the franchises, revealing that both are still in the script phase.
Mangold, who is no stranger to blockbuster filmmaking, having directed films for the X-Men and Indiana Jones franchises, is attached to write and direct a Swamp Thing movie for DC Studios and a Star Wars prequel for Lucasfilm. While promoting his new movie A Complete Unknown, Mangold provided an update on both projects to Deadline, saying, “Working on them all. Don’t know what’s next. Don’t know.” He later expanded on the development process for his Star Wars movie (also for Deadline), sharing, “My partner [Beau Willimon] and I have been writing it. I don’t know what’s next because we haven’t gotten to the end of that process. We’re trying to finish a draft.”
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Mangold became attached to both movies in 2023. The filmmaker confirmed his involvement in DC Studios’ Swamp Thing in February, while Lucasfilm announced Mangold as the writer and director of a Star Wars prequel movie that would “go back to the dawn of the Jedi” and explore the origins of The Force roughly 25,000 years before the events of the original trilogy in April during Star Wars Celebration Europe IV. A year later, it was reported that Beau Willimon, who had written episodes of Andor, would co-write Mangold’s Star Wars movie. While plot details remain under wraps for the untitled Star Wars movie, which will be part of an era dubbed “Dawn of the Jedi” by Lucasfilm, Mangold has cited Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 silent religious epic The Ten Commandments as a major inspiration for the movie.
Swamp Thing was announced by DC Studios in January 2023 as part of the opening slate for the DCU, which has been titled Chapter 1: Gods & Monsters. The upcoming movie will be based on the title character, who was created by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson back in 1971. Originally an idealistic scientist named Alec Holland, he was reborn as the Swamp Thing — a creature made of vegetation that absorbed the scientist’s memories, personality and grief — after an accident in his lab.
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While plot details for Swamp Thing are unknown at this time, Gunn and Safran have described the upcoming project as the DCU’s first true horror film. Mangold has also teased that the film will be “just a standalone” feature, adding, “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.” He also described the project as “a kind of Frankenstein movie.” While no casting has been announced yet, Vincent D’Onofrio (MCU’s Wilson Fisk/Kingpin) shared back in September that he has always wanted to play Swamp Thing.
Neither Swamp Thing nor Mangold’s Star Wars movie have release dates at this time.
Source: Deadline
“}]] DC Studios’ Swamp Thing and the Star Wars prequel Dawn of the Jedi get a much-needed update from filmmaker James Mangold. Read More