The previous few months have seen Warner Bros. fast-track a film starring the Batman villain Clayface. After latest reviews a couple of director hunt, the studio has named its alternative: James Watkins, beforehand of Eden Lake and 2024’s Speak No Evil remake.
In accordance with the Hollywood Reporter, Watkins nailed his presentation to James Gunn and can now helm the movie, whose script comes from in style horror writer-director Mike Flanagan. No matter this movie finally ends up being, THR says to anticipate one thing with a $40 million price range that’s more likely to shoot later this 12 months. Whoever finally ends up nabbing the function of Clayface—right here, a fading actor who injects himself with a substance (not that one) that finally ends up granting him shapeshifting talents—is anticipated to additionally play the character exterior of live-action, as is Gunn’s edict for the entire DC film slate.
Clayface would be the first Batman villain who isn’t a chaotic homicide clown to headline a solo film. He tends to look pretty frequently exterior of comics: in animation, he’s been in Batman: The Animated Sequence, The Batman (each as Basil Karlo and unique character Ethan Bennett), and Batman: Caped Crusader. (Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger additionally voiced him within the Batwheels cartoon—no, really.) He’s additionally popped up within the Lego Batman video games, and even got here to live-action in each Gotham and Pennyworth, the place the character was reimagined as a lady. Most not too long ago, Alan Tudyk voiced the villain throughout his transient look in Creature Commandos, and he additionally voices the character in Harley Quinn.
Count on James Watkins’ Clayface to hit theaters September 11, 2026.
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