{"id":92523,"date":"2023-04-07T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/james-mangold-says-hes-writing-both-his-star-wars-swamp-thing-movies\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:58:15","slug":"james-mangold-says-hes-writing-both-his-star-wars-swamp-thing-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/07\/james-mangold-says-hes-writing-both-his-star-wars-swamp-thing-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"James Mangold Says He&#8217;s Writing Both His &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Swamp Thing&#8217; Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"\/>\n<p><strong>James Mangold<\/strong>\u00a0has a busy 2023 forward of him because of the discharge of \u201c<strong>Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny<\/strong>.\u201d But now it appears like the following a number of years will probably be even busier. After the announcement that Mangold will helm <a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/dawn-of-the-jedi-star-wars-movie-james-mangold-20230407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a future \u201c<strong>Star Wars<\/strong>\u201d movie<\/a>, the director confirmed one other long-rumored challenge.  That is, sure: Mangold is at the moment writing <a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/swamp-thing-james-mangold-in-talks-to-write-direct-dc-studios-horror-film-20230201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the \u201c<strong>Swamp Thing<\/strong>\u201d film for the brand new\u00a0<strong>DCEU<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/going-electric-timothee-chalamet-says-his-bob-dylan-biopic-is-still-in-the-works-moving-in-a-very-positive-direction-20221116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ MORE: \u2018Dawn Of The Jedi\u2019: James Mangold To Direct A New \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Film Set 25,000 Years In The Past<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/swamp-thing-movie-james-mangold-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Collider<\/a> stories that Mangold confirmed he\u2019s writing \u201cSwamp Thing\u201d on the Star Wars Celebration in London. When requested in regards to the challenge, Mangold replied, \u201cThe truth is, I\u2019m writing both right now, and who knows what\u2019s going to happen and what\u2019s gonna blossom first or second? So there\u2019s your thing, I\u2019m doing \u201cSwamp Thing,\u201d there\u2019s your scoop. It\u2019s not a hearsay, it\u2019s taking place. I put it on-line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put it online\u201d references Mangold\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mang0ld\/status\/1620686622152077313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet of a Swamp Thing picture<\/a> shortly after\u00a0<strong>James Gunn<\/strong>\u2018s big announcement about \u201c<strong>Gods And Monsters<\/strong>\u201d in late January. Since then, DC fans speculated if that post confirmed Mangold\u2019s involvement with the upcoming movie. Now the followers realize it\u2019s true. And Gunn shortly adopted up Mangold\u2019s feedback on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesGunn\/status\/1644378464492093441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, too. \u201cOf course when we started charting the course for the DCU one of the first people I talked to was the super talented @mang0ld about writing and directing his passion project Swamp Thing,\u201d Gunn tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>But whether or not \u201cSwamp Thing\u201d comes earlier than or after Mangold\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie stays within the air. In January, Gunn and\u00a0<strong>Peter Safran<\/strong>\u00a0disclosed that \u201cSwamp Thing\u201d will probably be \u201ca film that will investigate the dark origins of\u201d the character and reveal how tonally various the brand new DCEU line-up will probably be. Comics author\u00a0<strong>Len Wein\u00a0<\/strong>and illustrator\u00a0<strong>Bernie Wrightson<\/strong>\u00a0first conceived the character in 1971: Alex Olsen, a maverick scientist, suffers a extreme chemical burn and merges with the swamp he research after he dives into its water to avoid wasting himself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swamp Thing\u2019s recognition took off when\u00a0<strong>Alan Moore<\/strong>\u00a0took over the title for a run within the mid-Eighties. Moore\u2019s run launched extra mature themes to the comics and likewise launched fashionable characters like John Constantine to readers. But given Moore\u2019s normal aversion to Hollywood and his works getting tailored, don\u2019t count on the comics legend to have any involvement with Mangold\u2019s script.<\/p>\n<p>And together with \u201cSwamp Thing\u201d and his \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie, Mangold is hooked up to a Buster Keaton biopic and a <a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/going-electric-timothee-chalamet-says-his-bob-dylan-biopic-is-still-in-the-works-moving-in-a-very-positive-direction-20221116\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bob Dylan biopic with <strong>Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/strong><\/a>. So what is going to come first? Mangold in all probability received\u2019t know that till \u201cThe Dial Of Destiny\u201d hits theaters on June 30.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id){var js, fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if(d.getElementById(id)) return; js=d.createElement(s); js.id=id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] James Mangold\u00a0has a busy 2023 forward of him because of the discharge of \u201cIndiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.\u201d But now it appears like the following a number of years will probably be even busier. After the announcement that Mangold will helm a future \u201cStar Wars\u201d movie, the director confirmed one other long-rumored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}