Alec awoke just before the bomb burst and rushed into the swamp in flames. Thugs working for Nathan Ellery barged into Alec's lab, knocked him out, and put a bomb in the facility as Alex and his wife Linda were creating the formula in a covert facility hidden in the Louisiana swamplands. He is a vegetable matter mass that acquired the memory and personality of Alec Holland, a botanist who died in a swamp shortly after developing a hormonal Bio-Restorative Formula for plants - the Bio-Restorative Formula was developed to alleviate any nation's food crisis concerns. Here’s what we currently know so far about Swamp Thing.īased on the comics, Swamp Thing is an elemental entity that is linked to all plant life on Earth by a network known as the Green. However, under Gunn and Safran’s vision, Swamp Thing will most definitely take a different approach while still maintaining the character’s integrity. Throughout the decades, Swamp Thing has continuously received its TV/movie adaptation treatment, but sadly some of them were short-lived or didn’t receive the recognition the story properly deserves. In a video announcement fittingly titled “Chapter 1 - Gods and Monsters”, Gunn shared the upcoming slate from DC Studios, which features a whopping total of 10 film and TV titles including Superman: Legacy, a Green Lantern series, and interestingly, Swamp Thing. Discovery, the two co-chiefs have unveiled the first part of their plan to reboot the DC Universe. Three months after inducting James Gunn and Peter Safran into DC Studios at Warner Bros.

Are There Any Previous Swamp Thing Adaptations?.

Swamp Thing by Len Wein