Whereas Sgt. Rock could now not be filming this summer season, the DCU Clayface film has been given a manufacturing begin date.
Clayface is a brand new DCU film that will likely be launched in September 2026. Directed by James Watkins, the movie’s script comes from The Haunting of Hill Home’s Mike Flanagan.
When is the manufacturing begin date for Clayface?
In keeping with TheWrap’s Umberto Gonzalez, Clayface will formally start manufacturing on October 1, 2025.
Meaning DC followers won’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer for some casting bulletins relating to Clayface, because it has not but been revealed who will play the titular Batman villain within the movie. It’s recognized, nonetheless, that it received’t be Alan Tudyk, as James Gunn beforehand confirmed another person will play the position although Tudyk voiced Clayface in Creature Commandos and the Harley Quinn animated present, the latter of which is about outdoors the DCU.
“Sources say the movie is budgeted at $40 million and is a Hollywood horror story centering on a B-movie actor who injects himself with a substance to maintain himself related, solely to search out out that he can reshape his face and kind, turning into a strolling piece of clay,” an outline of the plot, through The Hollywood Reporter, reads.
Additional particulars stay underneath wraps right now. Whether or not or not Batman reveals up within the movie stays to be seen.
Gunn and Peter Safran will each produce Clayface alongside Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris. Watkins’ previous filmography consists of 2008’s Eden Lake, 2012’s The Girl in Black, 2016’s Bastille Day, and 2024’s Communicate No Evil.
Clayface will likely be launched in United States theaters on September 11, 2026, from Warner Bros Photos. Previous to that, Superman arrives on July 11, 2025, adopted by Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow on June 26, 2026.
Initially reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.
