Clayface will officially join the new DC Universe, more than a year after Mike Flanagan proposed his take on the shape-shifting supervillain.
Deadline has confirmed that Flanagan has been tapped to write the script for DC Studios as he works on the upcoming Exorcist reboot. The studio is reportedly still looking for a director.
Director Flanagan has expressed interest in making a standalone Clayface movie, writing on Twitter that he hopes to approach the film as a “horror/thriller/tragedy” in 2021.
In March 2023, after Flanagan met with DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran, who joined DC Studios in 2022, sources said that Flanagan’s interpretation of Clayface would not feature the character as a villain. Ta.
Although Flanagan wasn’t pitching the character as part of Matt Reeves’ DC alternate universe, other sources say Clayface is a big addition to Reeves’ The Batman 2. It is said that there is.
Clayface made his DC appearance in June 1940 as part of Detective Comics #40. Although there would eventually be a number of shape-shifting DC antagonists using that alias, the original Clayface was a moderately successful actor who adopted his character’s identity . After turning to crime, he was depicted in horror photographs. He is a frequent adversary of Batman with a body seemingly made of clay, and has appeared in numerous films, television series, animated features, video games, and other forms of media over the years, appearing in Gotham (The CW ) series and Pennyworth. (Epix/HBO Max) By Brian McManamon and Lorraine Burrows, respectively. The rationale behind Clayface’s appearance was revealed in the 1970s comics, where the character evolved into a scientist with a hormonal disorder.
