UGO recently did a rather in-depth interview with comics scribe Len Wein, the man has penned for many major Marvel & DC comics like "Batman", "Superman" and "Spider-Man" but was also responsible for helping co=create famed icons including "Swamp Thing" and X-Men's Wolverine character. He's now got a new comic called "Gene Pool" coming up, and upon its release he also talked about the upcoming "Man-Thing" movie and plans for a new adaptation of the classic "Swamp Thing". The Man-Thing movie is coming. I always wondered what you and Bernie [Wrightson, artist] thought of that?
There are a couple of elements to that particular question. One of which is that I was rooming with Gerry Conway who wrote the first Man-Thing story. It was just independent creation. We were doing Swamp Thing and Gerry and I think Gray Morrow was doing Man-Thing. Neither of us knew the other was doing the same thing. The weirdest aspect is that I actually wrote the second Man-Thing story; the whole "Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch". In Gerry's first story anything the Man-Thing touched burned. It was a protagonist who could never interact with anybody so I came up with the idea of fear. I am also writing the script for a brand new Swamp Thing film for Joel Silver to produce.
Are you into the first draft?
I have a first draft and doing some modifications now. I'm expecting to hand it in soon. Then it goes to Warner Bros and we'll see what happens then.
How are you doing it? It's a horror movie. The new Man-Thing movie sounds just like what the old Swamp Thing was. I think it has a budget of $5 million. The Swamp Thing has a budget of way beyond that. When I had my first meeting with Joel the first thing he said was "No guy in a rubber suit." Swamp Thing will be all CGI.
I know Bernie works on movies. Will he be involved?
Yes he will be involved in the design work.
You can find the full interview over at UGO.
Thanks to 'FanHalen'
