A Complete Unknown director James Mangold is drawn to Swamp Thing’s “abject deformation [and] loneliness” as his next movie … and of course that Bernie Wrightson art

James Mangold is a busy man, and one that’s tough to pin down — contemporary off his acclaimed 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, he’s connected to each an upcoming Star Wars movie concerning the origins of the Pressure, and additionally DC Studios’ Swamp Factor. Throughout a recent appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, he talked about what it is that attracts him to the latter character.

Citing his fascination with the “gothic Horror, variety of Frankenstein legend, complete idea of man plant,” Mangold stated that even simply the character’s identify was sufficient to seize his consideration… however, of course, there’s a lot extra to Swamp Factor.

“I like the identify, I like, simply, the title,” he stated. “The Bernie Wrightson art within the authentic collection is so unbelievable. The facet of variety of being separated out of your life and instantly haunting the woods, and variety of dwelling on this abject deformation, this loneliness… that’s actually fascinating.”

Does that imply that we must always count on Swamp Factor to be half of the next wave of DC Studios bulletins? (It was half of the primary wave of DC’s Gods and Monsters movie slate, it’s value remembering.) That’s one thing that Mangold discovered much less straightforward to reply.

“I truthfully do not know what’s coming next,” he admitted. “I variety of went actually speedy hearth via a collection of motion pictures the final three [projects], yeah, and this is variety of my variety of [cool down time].”

We will however hope that the muck monster works his charms yet another time, simply to persuade Mangold to signal on the dotted line earlier than too lengthy — and possibly he can deliver A Complete Unknown’s Timothée Chalamet to play Matt Cable within the course of.