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“Can you imagine how bummed out I was? I was ready to buy a house in Wilmington [where the show filmed]. And everyone was so close, because we were setting the stage for a long run. We got to lean on each other and became a family in that kind of situation when you’re in that kind of [project]. Everyone was ready and it was kind of like the proverbial rug being swept out from underneath you and I really felt it didn’t make sense. It didn’t make sense at all. There was no explaining it. I just had this sort of hang my head and go home and eat a lot of comfort foods for a few months … but yes, it was a great disappointment.”
While the Swamp Thing series didn’t go beyond one season, it isn’t the end of the line for the character. Earlier this year James Gunn revealed that a Swamp Thing movie is part of the opening DC Studios slate, with the film expected to explore the character’s dark origins.
“The final film we want to talk about is Swamp Thing,” Gunn said during his presentation. “And we bring it up because it’s important to point out that in these stories, although interconnected, they’re not all tonally the same. Each set of filmmakers brings their own aesthetic to these films, and the fun is seeing how these tonally different works mash up in the future. This is a film that will investigate the dark origins of Swamp Thing.”
While no additional details about the Swamp Thing movie have been revealed, Madsen did say that she doesn’t expect to be asked to reprise her role as Maria Sunderland in the film — though she would like to see Derek Mears return as Swamp Thing.
“I would doubt it,” she said. “I think that kind of director is going to make it his own. If anything, I wish that they would bring Derek into the movie because he had so much heart.”
Madsen’s next film, One Day as a Lion hits select theaters on April 4th and Digital on April 7th.
