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DC Universe's Swamp Thing Will Have Physical Costume, Possibly R-Rated


DC Universe is launching in a week but we won't be seeing Titans until October. While fans are looking forward to seeing shows like Batman: The Animated Series in HD, new programs like Titans, Doom Patrol, and Swamp Thing will be what keeps this service going. Details on the Swamp Thing series has been surfacing and a new interview with writer Gary Dauberman revealed more interesting details.

Speaking with /Film, Dauberman revealed that they are going to try to make the series R rated since that will make it more faithful to the comics. The comics have always been horror-oriented and it's good to know that it will be based on Alan Moore's stellar run.

"This is one, when you talked earlier about the rating for The Nun, we always set out to make Swamp Thing as hard R as we could and go graphic with the violence, with the adult themes and make it as scary as possible. Because we're doing it through the DC streaming service, they really pushed us, although they didn't have to push hard, for us to go as extreme as we could. We really took our inspiration from the Alan Moore run in Swamp Thing, this landmark I think run. Fans of that series will know it gets pretty weird and extreme and scary. We really wanted to live up to that standard that Moore set up back in the ‘80s. Then of course it allows us, Swamp Thing himself looks incredible what Justin Raleigh and the guys over at Fractured are doing with the suit. So it's going to look amazing and less of the "man in suit" that you've seen in the movie and the other TV show."

What's interesting to note is that they will have a live-action suit for the actual Swamp Thing, which should make it look less fake than if it was pure CGI. Ongoing programs like this have a budget they need to abide by and having a suit should help with that. Plus, they could always add CGI to it, though that has not been confirmed.

It's not yet known if the Swamp Thing series will be in the same universe as Titans and Doom Patrol. Dauberman says he hasn't talked with the creative teams of those series' yet so it's a wait and see for this situation. Arrow made TV crossovers work so they could do that in DC Universe as well.

Swamp Thing doesn't have a release date as of this writing.

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