Joel Silver, the über-producer of mega-franchices like
Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and
The Matrix has his sights set on comic book properties, it seems. Silver is the producer of
Whiteout, based on the Oni Press series, and has plans to make live-action movies of
Swamp Thing and
Sgt. Rock
With
Whiteout, Silver utilized digital 3-D technology and said that it was a necessity for that film:
"I don’t think that this film would have been possible without the computer-graphics work we do today. The fact that in the middle of these terrible storms you can actually see the people and not see anything else is all due to the technology today. I made Die Hard 2 20 years ago, and you had to have snow and it was difficult to do. We were chasing snow around the world, and it was a complicated way of making a picture. In this one, we did have some harsh environments (to shoot in), but a lot of it was created in a way that you could believe what you were seeing. You believed you were watching these characters living in this environment, which, I think, is what makes the film original and unique."
Will
Swamp Thing utilize this trendy new technology? Possibly, according to Silver:
"Our company [Dark Castle Entertainment] is currently working on developing a remake of Swamp Thing...and we think [3-D] might work. There are a couple of things that would work for us, but not everything."