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John Constantine and Swamp Thing Returning to the Silver Screen in ‘Dark Universe’
Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, The Bourne Identity) has been confirmed as the director of Dark Universe, which falls in the Warner Bros/DC Entertainment universe, according to Variety. The site also reports that Scott Rudin will be producing off a script by Michael Gilio.
Dark Universe will be following the Justice League Dark team, which made their first appearance in 2011. The team consists of John Constantine, Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Shade, and Zatanna, although the site suggests that we’ll also be seeing Swamp Thing. The team comprises the more “supernatural” characters within the DC universe.
There have been two incarnations of Constantine in the past. The first was 2005’s Constantine, which starred Keanu Reeves in the title role while the second was the short-lived TV series cancelled in 2015 that starred Matt Ryan. If the rumors are true and we’re going to see Swamp Thing on the big screen, it’ll be the first time since Wes Craven’s 1982 interpretation that saw Dick Durock as the vegetative creature.
No other plot details have been released and I’m guessing we won’t hear anything for a while, especially with the WB/DC team hard at work on Justice League, Wonder Woman and whatever Batman flick Ben Affleck is working on.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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