Swamp Thing season 2 was going to be twisted, weird & gross

November 20th 2019, 2:25pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

As we all know all too well by this point in time, Warner Bros. canceled DC Universe and James Wan's SWAMP THING series after only allowing the show to air a single episode of its 10-episode first season. And today we're hearing from SWAMP THING and IT and ANNABELLE COMES HOME writer Gary Dauberman that the second season was going to get twisted, weirder, and gross.

He says:

Season one is very much like a movie in that it has a beginning, middle, and end, and is one story told over the course of ten episodes and what I liked a lot about the comics is that there's like werewolf in a hospital and things like that, so we would have had episodes like an anthology with standalone stories. The swamp is very much the kitchen sink of supernatural terror and, as you know, you can go into different subgenres of horror with that and I was really looking forward to exploring that in season two and getting into some of the more twisted horror tales from the later comics. It just would have got weirder. For people who don't know the character, season one was telling people what Swamp-Thing was all about but season two was going to be more about getting into the deeper, twisted, weirder, and gross ideas.

Len Wiseman directed the DC Universe SWAMP THING series from a script by Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman. The cast included Andy Bean as biologist Alec Holland and Crystal Reed as CDC Doctor Abby Arcane. Here's the rundown for the (currently) canceled series:

Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe.

Bean and Reed starred in the new series along with Maria Sten, Jeryl Prescott, Jennifer Beals, Virginia Madsen, Will Patton, Henderson Wade, Ian Ziering, and Kevin Durand, with Derek Mears as Swamp Thing himself. James Wan's company Atomic Monster produced Swamp Thing in association with Warner Bros. Television. Wan, Wiseman, Verheiden, and Dauberman served as executive producers on the series with Michael Clear.

Swamp Thing is still available to stream over on DC Universe RIGHT HERE.