DC Universe's "Swamp Thing" (Season 1)

[ben6543]

https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2018/0...on-DC-Universe



While much about the series is unknown, the official description does suggest that it won’t stray too far from the world and characters that fans love:

When CDC researcher Abby Arcane returns to her childhood home of Houma, Louisiana, in order to investigate a deadly swamp-borne virus, she develops a surprising bond with scientist Alec Holland—only to have him tragically taken from her. But as powerful forces descend on Houma, intent on exploiting the swamp’s mysterious properties for their own purposes, Abby will discover that the swamp holds mystical secrets, both horrifying and wondrous—and the potential love of her life may not be dead after all.

Swamp Thing, for anyone out there who doesn’t know, is based on characters from DC created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. He first appeared in 1971’s HOUSE OF SECRETS #92 before earning his own ongoing comic written and drawn by Wein and Wrightson. Over the years, the SWAMP THING comic has been written by a dream team of visionary comic book writers including Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Brian K. Vaughan and Scott Snyder. Moore’s iconic SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING broke new ground when it came to sophisticated, mature storytelling and helped pave the way for what would eventually become Vertigo Comics—a line that Swamp Thing would eventually join before making his way back to the DCU during The New 52.

Swamp Thing also has quite a history outside the world of comics. Most famously, the character served as the inspiration for the 1982 Wes Craven Swamp Thing movie, its 1989 sequel The Return of Swamp Thing and a USA network television series that ran from 1990-1993, all of which starred stuntman Dick Durock in the title role. The character also had an animated series that ran at roughly the same time as the live action one, and has since shown up in animated shows and movies such as Justice League Unlimited, Justice League Action and Justice League Dark, as well as video games like Injustice 2. There was also a Constantine Easter Egg that nodded to the existence of Swamp Thing, but the character never actually appeared on the show.

[AnamorphicWidescreen]

Interesting news. My favorite Swamp Thing comic series was the original one, with art by the iconic Berni Wrightston - great horror series.

I was a fan of the '82 Swamp Thing film, but never saw the '89 sequel. IIRC I caught a couple of episodes of the TV series (I got the DVD set out of the library), but couldn't really get into this. I may need to give this series another try.

[drb999]

I hope that the show is heavily influenced by the Alan Moore run in the comics. That was amazing stuff.

[Thomas Veil]

This definitely needs a darker version...the movies are ok but overtime the cheese has become a little too cheesy.

[King Crimson]

Hope this follows Moores Legendary run, my second favorite comic book run of all time. Moores best work IMO and with James Wan producing, I have faith.

[Dr. Seymour Love]

Read on another board where someone posted that this was filming locally near them and they talked to some of the crew who told them it was a straight up horror show. If true, not surprising since Wan is involved.

[Thomas Veil]

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/355...s-swamp-thing/

Oh no

[Himmel]

Originally Posted by thomas veil

https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/355...s-swamp-thing/

oh no

😠 why why why!!!???

[AdubW1982]

This sucks!

[sandman slim]

Another article about the shutdown.

"Cast & crew were told during filming Tuesday night", "WB tightening the purse strings, evaluating the streaming service"... I thought the DC service was doing well? And they just announced S1 of Titans for Blu-ray.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by sandman slim

Another article about the shutdown.

"Cast & crew were told during filming Tuesday night", "WB tightening the purse strings, evaluating the streaming service"... I thought the DC service was doing well? And they just announced S1 of Titans for Blu-ray.

It was also announced that a DC Universe app is coming to the XBox One consoles. Frickin’ Warner Brothers seriously does not know how to properly handle DC at all.

That rumored Warner streaming service is something I don’t want. DC Universe is a good streaming platform but I really don’t want Warner, Disney, Universal, and Sony fighting Hulu and Netflix for the consumer space. Disney+ sounds great and the price is nice but Warner has always embraced some type of release so them entering the SVOD market is a dumb move.

At the least, lower the price of DC Universe when it is fully available on XBox One at least for a promotional period to draw users.

[stvn1974]

WB/DC could find a way to ruin sex, ice cream and kittens.

[InuYashaCrusade]

Gotta say, I'm not surprised at all if the DC streaming service isn't doing well. I saw it coming from a mile away.

[steve_dave]

/Film has exclusively learned that the potential issues with Swamp Thing‘s production do not reflect the health of the DC Universe service. Reports from various outlets suggested that the future of DC Universe was in doubt amid the early production wrap for its latest original series. However /Film confirmed with sources close to the studio that those two topics are unrelated to each other.

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-dc-uni...e-swamp-thing/

[RalphoR]

Screw streaming then. Make this a theatrical horror film of epic proportions.

[Chedwiggen]

Originally Posted by InuYashaCrusade

Gotta say, I'm not surprised at all if the DC streaming service isn't doing well. I saw it coming from a mile away.

There just isn't enough content to keep people subscribing. If they are making a WB streaming service they should fold DC Universe streaming into it. Such a shame though as Swamp Thing was the one show I was really looking forward to.

[Darkstream]

DC UNIVERSE | THE ULTIMATE MEMBERSHIP | Swamp Thing Reveal - YouTube

[Himmel]

Release a teaser after shutting down.

[ben6543]

Originally Posted by Himmel

Release a teaser after shutting down.

Man Swampy looks great. I do hope Constantine has a cameo. since it was Swamp Thing's comics issue 31 that introduced Constantine.

[Darkstream]

So, are they just cutting the season down to ten episodes, or is the entire show ending with only ten episodes?