James Gunn Reveals If James Mangold’s Paramount Deal Killed The DC Universe Movie

Is Swamp Factor formally cooked? James Gunn speaks on how James Mangold’s Paramount deal could impact his upcoming mission for the DC Universe.

There have been a variety of stunning tasks introduced for the DC Universe throughout James Gunn’s preliminary slate reveal. Nevertheless, maybe probably the most odd because the reveal that James Mangold can be helming a horror-focused Swamp Factor film for the franchise. One of many greatest components of that’s that Mangold already had fairly a couple of tasks on his plate on the time with rival studios like Paramount and Disney.

Whereas information on Swamp Factor has been sluggish resulting from these prior obligations, an enormous spanner has seemingly been thrown into the plans for the mission following an announcement that James Mangold has signed an general deal to develop movies to Paramount. This instantly threw into query how the deal would have an effect on different tasks he’s signed onto, similar to working with James Gunn within the DC Universe and his long-awaited Star Wars movie.

Is Swamp Factor Cancelled?

Following the preliminary hailstorm on social media, James Gunn spoke about James Mangold’s new cope with Paramount in an interview with the Rolling Stone. The helmer revealed that the contract doesn’t explicitly cease James Mangold from directing Swamp Factor for the DC Universe. Nevertheless, he appears to cease in need of saying the movie is a assure.

“No, no, it doesn’t [disqualify it]. No.” Gunn defined earlier than including. “Yeah [I hope it becomes a reality], I imply, yeah, completely. Completely. Yeah. We’ve talked to him. He’s nonetheless invested. So we’ll see. Some issues take a very long time. We’ll see what occurs.”

The problem with James Mangold’s new Paramount contract seemingly isn’t exceptions that imply he can’t develop new tasks for one thing just like the DC Universe. Moderately, there are seemingly components incentivizing him to ship tasks for the studio pretty quickly following the ink drying on the contract. So whereas Swamp Factor could also be within the works, it’ll seemingly be some time earlier than James Gunn supplies any additional updates on it.

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