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‘Justice League Dark’: Swamp Thing Stands as Tall as the Trees in Unused Concept Art
Before J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot were hired to develop a series for HBO Max, several filmmakers took a stab at bringing Justice League Dark to life on the big screen.
Doug Liman, best known for the awesome Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt time travel thriller Edge of Tomorrow, was deep into development, even creating concept art that would have launched a different kind of “dark universe” over at Warner Bros. with the likes of John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Deadman, Spectre, Zatanna, Zatara, Madame Xanadu, and Floronic Man.
Today, artist Houston Sharp shared some unused concept art that he was hired to create for Liman’s project. What Liman was planning looked both stunning and also extremely R-rated.
The first two pieces of art reveal Swamp Thing, created by fire, and standing as tall as the trees deep in the swamp. “Swamp Thing, being a spirit of the swamp, coming into form when a group of arsonists set the plants ablaze,” writes Sharp.
The second, albeit a bit bizarre, shows Klarion, the corpse of a boy possessed by flies, walking in on Constantine with a prostitute. Says Sharp: “This illustration might be the peak of my artistic career.”
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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