Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny filmmaker James Mangold is circling to helm Swamp Thing, Deadline has learned. These are very early talks, nothing locked in stone. The project is so deep development, there’s no script, we understand per sources.

We hear that Mangold is a big fan of Swamp Thing, and has been chasing the feature for a while. That said DC is stoked about Mangold. The filmmaker has an offer.

In unveiling their DC Universe slate Chapter One “Gods and Monsters”, the studio’s co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran didn’t make any director announcements. This morning, the day after the news of the DC slate broke, Mangold tweeted out a photo from the Swamp Thing comic book which Gunn then re-tweeted.

Mangold’s next project is Searchlight’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet as the young crooner, as Deadline first reported. His Indiana Jones comes out on June 30. Hence the Swamp Thing movie would be very far out.

Mangold took the R-rated superhero movie to another level with Logan, the third Wolverine movie starring Hugh Jackman. Mangold EP’ed, co-wrote and directed Logan which grossed over $619M WW before Disney took over 20th Century Fox and it’s portion of the X-Men Marvel universe. Mangold is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

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