James Mangold says Swamp Thing will be a Gothic horror

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James Mangold has shared more details about his Swamp Thing DC movie – and explaiܫned why it's not a💖 franchise movie. 

News that 🥂Mangold was in talks to helm the Swamp Thing movie, arriving as part of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters, first broke in February. 

, adding he'd been "toying for years with the idea of making a kind of Frankenstein movie." When 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn and Peter Safran became co-CEO's of DC Studios, Mangold said he "put in a friendly call" about a Swamp Thing movie that would be "just doing my own thing with this, just a standalone."&nb꧋sp;

There are no plot details on the movie just yet, thougꦛh Gunn revealed in the Chapter Onജe announcement that Swamp Thing is a "very dark horror story" that’s "tonally outside of the rest of the DCU." 

Other projects coming as part of Chapter One include Superman: Legacy and Batman movie The Brave and the Bold, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:set to be helmed by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Flash director Andy Muschietti. 

Next up from Mangold is the highly anticipated 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Indiana Jones and the Dial of De📖stiny, which arrives in theaters this June 30 in the US and🌠 June 28 in the UK. Harrison Ford is back as the titular archeologist adventurer, while the rest of the cast includes Ma🌼ds Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Toby Jones, and Antonio Banderas. 

While you wait for Indiana Jones 5, check out our guide to all the upcoming major 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:movie release dates for everything else 2023 has in store. 

Molly Edwards
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