Four Pages From Cancelled ‘Swamp Thing’ Movie Script Appear Online

Lauren Keating, Tech Times 03 June 2015, 12:06 pm

DC Comics' Swamp Thing has suffered from some seriously unfortunate events after being caught in a lab explosion that left him physically altered — transforming him into the superhuman creature we know him as. But it was fans of the immortal monster who were left disappointed back in 2010 when director Vincenzo Natali revealed that the planned Swamp Thing Hollywood reboot was cancelled.

Now new details about what the film would've been like have been revealed.

Swamp Thing first made his debut in DC's House of Secrets #92 in 1971. He was given his own series a year later, which followed the story of scientist Alec Holland transforming into the "muck-encrusted" creature out of the Louisiana bayou.

The story inspired two films – one directed by Wes Craven in 1982, and a sequel in 1989 – a live-action television series, and an animated series.

Then in 2009, producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) wanted to bring Swamp Thing back to the big screen for Warner Bros., and teamed up with screenplay writer Akiva Goldsman (Batman Forever, A Beautiful Mind).

Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice, NBC's Hannibal) was then added to the team to direct the reboot, but the film soon got canned because the film's rights where held by another company.

While the Swamp Thing script was already written by Goldsman, we now learned that Natali actually rewrote his own version, sharing the first four pages on Twitter.

Natalie opens with a team of soliders walking through the swamp at night, hunting down the monster. The Swamp Thing is described as being at least seven feet tall and is "coated in beaded moisture and tendrils of green," and seems to "drag the floor of the swamp along with it." Insects crawl on his body covered with moss and plants.

The soldiers see his two red eyes and open fire on him until they run out of ammunition. The scene ends with the Swamp Thing being lit on fire and falling to his knees.

The script reflects influences from Swamp Thing's 1984 comic book reboot by writer Alan Moore, and brings the monster to life in a way we could have only hoped to see in theaters.

Read the first four pages of the canceled Swamp Thing reboot below.