Do you ship Poison Ivy and Swamp Thing? Because I don’t care.
DC Universe’s Swamp Thing just gave you more reason to be excited for it. The series’ co-writer and executive producer Gary Dauberman (IT, The Nun) gave up a few tidbits to that aim.
According to an interview with SlashFilm, the series will be going dark, which is kind of what you want from a horror-based character like Swamp Thing:
we always set out to make Swamp Thing as hard R as we could and go graphic with the violence, with the adult themes and make it as scary as possible. Because we’re doing it through the DC streaming service, they really pushed us, although they didn’t have to push hard, for us to go as extreme as we could. We really took our inspiration from the Alan Moore run in Swamp Thing, this landmark I think run. Fans of that series will know it gets pretty weird and extreme and scary. We really wanted to live up to that standard that Moore set up back in the ‘80s.
He also goes on to mention that they’ve decided to go with a practical effects suit for the character.
Then of course it allows us, Swamp Thing himself looks incredible what Justin Raleigh and the guys over at Fractured are doing with the suit. So it’s going to look amazing and less of the “man in suit” that you’ve seen in the movie and the other TV show.
He goes on to say that the show will operate as an origin story for Swamp Thing, told mostly from the perspective of Abby Arcane.
Yeah, it’s the origin story of the Swamp Thing and it’s Alec Holland wrestling with who he’s become. A lot of it’s told through the point of view of Abby Arcane.
Honestly, you generally have me at practical effects.
Source: IGN
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