Annihilation director Alex Garland says, if given a chance, he would like to direct a “proper” movie version of DC’s Swamp Thing. The half-man/half-plant “elemental” creature Swamp Thing first appeared in 1971 from creators Lein Wein and Bernie Wrightson. However, the character took on its most familiar form much later under writer Alan Moore. Swamp Thing possesses superhuman healing due to his ability to reconstruct his own body using available vegetable matter. A later run of Swamp Thing books by Mark Millar gave him command over the elements fire, earth, water and air.
Swamp Thing first came to the big screen in 1982 with Wes Craven’s cult ...
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