Clayface is formally becoming a member of the brand new DC Universe greater than a 12 months after Mike Flanagan pitched his tackle the shapeshifting supervillain.
Deadline has confirmed that Flanagan has been tapped to put in writing the script for DC Studios amid his work on the upcoming Exorcist reboot. We perceive the studio remains to be looking for a director.
Flanagan has expressed his curiosity in making a standalone Clayface movie, writing on Twitter in 2021 that he desires to strategy the movie as a “horror/thriller/tragedy.”
In March 2023, our sources instructed us that Flanagan’s tackle Clayface is not going to characteristic the character as a villain, after the author and his Intrepid Footage associate Trevor Macy had a gathering with DC Bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran, who took over at DC Studios in 2022.
Though Flanagan wasn’t pitching the character to be a part of Matt Reeves’ DC elseworld, different sources have stated that Clayface is a giant addition to Reeves’ The Batman 2.
Clayface acquired his DC introduction as a part of Detective Comics #40 in June of 1940. Whereas there would finally be a variety of shape-shifting DC antagonists utilizing that alias, the unique Clayface was a reasonably profitable actor who adopted the id of a personality he’d portrayed in a horror pic after turning to crime. He’s a frequent adversary of Batman with a physique seemingly made out of clay who has appeared through the years in quite a few movies, tv sequence, animated works, video video games and different types of media, being portrayed on the sequence Gotham (The CW) and Pennyworth (Epix/HBO Max) by Brian McManamon and Lorraine Burroughs, respectively. The rationale behind Clayface’s look emerged in comics of the Seventies, which advanced the character right into a scientist with hormone irregularities.
