We recently reported on a rumor that It and John Wick Chapter 4 actor Bill Skarsgård might be up for a key role in an upcoming DCU project, and we may now know which character he's being eyed to play.
There was speculation that he could be in contention for a new take on the Joker, one of the members of The Authority, or possibly even Batman in The Brave and the Bold, but The Hot Mic's Jeff Sneider has heard that the versatile actor is actually being looked at to play Alec Holland, aka Swamp Thing!
We don't know if Skarsgård is actually in talks for the part, or he's just someone the studio is interested in, but it seems a little early for this project to be casting (Mangold is still working on his Bob Dylan biopic), so we'd say the latter is more likely.
We're not too sure what to expect from this latest live-action take on the big green fella, but we do know that the film will “investigates the dark origins of Swamp Thing.” Gunn also confirmed that Swamp Thing will be "a much more horrific film, but we’ll still have Swamp Thing interact with the other characters.”
The Earth Elemental and John Constantine are closely-connected characters in the comics, and with Keanu Reeves (possibly) set to reprise the title role for a sequel to 2005's Constantine, fans are hoping for an eventual crossover - potentially building towards a Justice League Dark movie.
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