Clayface is formally becoming a member of the brand new DC Universe greater than a yr after Mike Flanagan pitched his tackle the shapeshifting supervillain.
Deadline has confirmed that Flanagan has been tapped to write down the script for DC Studios amid his work on the upcoming Exorcist reboot. We perceive the studio continues to be trying to find a director.
Flanagan has expressed his curiosity in making a standalone Clayface film, writing on Twitter in 2021 that he needs to method the movie as a “horror/thriller/tragedy.”
In March 2023, our sources informed us that Flanagan’s tackle Clayface is not going to characteristic the character as a villain, after the author 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 an enormous addition to Reeves’ The Batman 2.
Clayface bought his DC introduction as a part of Detective Comics #40 in June of 1940. Whereas there would ultimately be quite a lot 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 over time 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 Nineteen Seventies, which developed the character right into a scientist with hormone irregularities.
