A special type of comic strip film begins to take shape, with reports of The Hollywood Reporter (and originally My time to shine) This Clayface de DC project found a director. James Watkins, who passed the audience in his seats with his 2024 remake “Speak No Evil” was appointed to lead the film. Already a very good horror manager, he will work on a script written by Mike Flanagan, the designer behind “The Haunting of Hill House”, “Midnight Mass” and “Doctor Sleep”. This is the last big jump in the development of the film after Warner Bros. Finally gave the spin-off of the DC The Green Light, an idea that Flanagan has kicked since 2021.
In the comics, Clayface was a name fired by many lawyers who have all been on the list of successes of Batman. Originally by doing his debut in 1940, Clayface was the first time Basil Karlo, a lucky actor who became a vengeful serial killer. Over the years, various other clays have arrived in various forms. The Clayface that most bats of bats will know better, thanks to “Batman: The Animated Series”, is a pile of self-sewer mud which could be transformed to look like anyone, as well as all T-1000 And create weapons. Currently, there is still no confirmation of The Dark Knight in this new film, but Watkins’ involvement gives us an idea of the type of film we get, and he might not need the Caped Crusader to make his appearance.
Clayface continues the DC trend of bad guys who get the best treatment
With “The Penguin” Ruffling Feathers as one of the surprise successes of 2024, and “Creature Commandos” offering an anarchic but excellent introduction to another type of suicide Squad, there are many promises in the bad guys of the DCU. Clayface, however, could be a bad guy to mix things even more by directing the first DC horror film, and that could be an autonomous story like the films “The Joker”, maybe even a part of the Saga Matt Reeves Batman.
Whatever the final film, it is an idea bubbling with potential, in particular given the talent involved. Flanagan is a well -established master to scare us while bringing emotion in the mixture. Watkins, however, has two extremely disturbing entries which show the darkest sides of human nature. In addition to “speak no evil”, there is also his debut as director, “Eden Lake” of 2008. With Michael Fassbender, “Kelly Reilly and Jack O’Connell of Yellowstone (who is soon ready for the crocs in” Sinners “From Ryan Coogler)), it is a film which / film even filed a horror which was going too far. Smush these two forces Creative together, and “Clayface” could be another derivative story that we did not know that we needed.
The shooting begins later this year and “Clayface” should be released in theaters on September 11, 2026.
