DC’s Clayface Film Will Be Molded by Director James Watkins

The previous couple of months have seen Warner Bros. fast-track a film starring the Batman villain Clayface. After current experiences a few 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 fashionable 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 prone to shoot later this 12 months. Whoever finally ends up nabbing the position of Clayface—right here, a fading actor who injects himself with a substance (not that one) that finally ends up granting him shapeshifting skills—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 seem pretty frequently exterior of comics: in animation, he’s been in Batman: The Animated Collection, The Batman (each as Basil Karlo and authentic 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 lately, Alan Tudyk voiced the villain throughout his transient look in Creature Commandos, and he additionally voices the character in Harley Quinn.

Anticipate James Watkins’ Clayface to hit theaters September 11, 2026.

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