Home News Erik Carlson October 2nd, 2025 - 7:29 PMJames Mangold has signed an overall deal with Paramount Studios, per The Hollywood Reporter. It is based on a currently unpublished short story by Jaime Oliveira, who is penning the screenplay. Due to the deal, fans are concerned about the fate of several of Mangold’s previously announced projects, including a Star Wars prequel for Disney and a Swamp Thing entry for James Gunn’s DC Cinematic Universe. The former would have been set thousands of years before any of the previous films in the sci-fi franchise, but has not received an update since 2023. With the latter, while Gunn announced Mangold’s involvement with Swamp Thing in 2023, he has since explained that he has yet to receive a script for it.