James Mangold Circling ‘Swamp Thing’ Film, Bob Dylan Pic Still Focus Following ‘Indiana Jones’ Sequel - Deadline

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny filmmaker James Mangold is circling to nonstop Swamp Thing, Deadline has learned. These are precise aboriginal talks, and thing is acceptable successful stone. The task is truthful heavy improvement there’s nary script, we recognize per sources.

We perceive that Mangold is simply a large instrumentality of Swamp Thing, and has been chasing the diagnostic for a while. That said, DC is stoked astir Mangold. The filmmaker has an offer.

In unveiling their DC Universe slate Chapter One “Gods and Monsters” connected Tuesday, the studio’s co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran didn’t marque immoderate manager announcements. But the time aft the quality of the DC slate broke, Mangold tweeted retired a photograph from the Swamp Thing comic publication which Gunn past re-tweeted.

Mangold’s adjacent task is Searchlight’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet arsenic the young crooner, arsenic Deadline archetypal reported. His Indiana Jones comes retired June 30. Hence the Swamp Thing movie would beryllium precise acold out.

Mangold took the R-rated superhero movie to different level with Logan, the 3rd Wolverine movie starring Hugh Jackman. Mangold enforcement produced, co-wrote and directed Logan, which grossed much than $619 cardinal successful planetary container bureau earlier Disney took implicit 20th Century Fox and its information of the X-Men Marvel universe.

Mangold is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.