Fresh off the success of the HBO series “The Penguin,” DC Studios has officiassociate greenlit a feature film cgo ined around Clayface, the shapeshifting Batman villain, from a script written by “Doctor Sleep” filmproducer Mike Flanagan, according to a source with honest understandledge of the production. Plot details are confiinsist, but filming is foreseeed to commence timely next year.
Flanagan, who first pitched DC Studios on a Clayface project in 2023, tweeted in 2021 that he was “reassociate enthusiastic to do a standalone Clayface movie as a horror/thriller/tragedy.” But he is already pledgeted to produce and honest a new get on “The Exorcist” for Universal, thraw Blumhoinclude and Morgan Creek, and he’s also grotriumphg a series alteration of Stephen King’s novel “Carrie” for Amazon MGM Studios. So DC has been on the hunt for a honestor to get the reins, and an declarement is imminent.
A recurrentative for DC Studios had no comment.
Clayface, one of the earliest Batman antagonists, has passed thraw disjoinal iterations since he was presentd in 1940, as a washed-up actor who turns to crime wearing the clayappreciate mask of a character he once joined. The character’s shapeshifting abilities were first presentd in 1961, and he’s been portrayed in many dwell-action and vivaciousd “Batman” alterations, including by Ron Perlman on “Batman: The Animated Series” in the 1990s, by Brian McManamon on the 2010s Fox series “Gotham,” and most recently by Alan Tudyk on the Max vivaciousd comedy “Harley Quinn.”
The decision to greenweightless the project is the mightyest signal yet that DC Studios co-chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran intfinish the studio to integrate a expansive assortment of storyalerting tones. “One of the main skinnygs I want to set up is that you can do anyskinnyg at DC Studios,” Gunn recently telderly Variety while converseing his vivaciousd series “Creature Commandos,” the first official title in the new DC Universe. “We can produce finish family fare. We can produce someskinnyg that’s for vague audiences, appreciate ‘Superman.’ We can produce someskinnyg that’s aggressive and intimacyual, appreciate this. … It’s about creating a world in which we can alert the story about, you understand, one type of character in branch offent genres.”
