It’s the starring role Basil Karlo was born to play! Unless they’re doing the Preston Payne or Matt Hagen version of the character. According to Deadline, DC Studios has set a September 11, 2026, release date for a Clayface stand-alone movie. The news comes a couple days after Variety reported that a film about the Batman villain was coming down the pike. Written by Mike Flanagan, the project is currently looking for a director. Flanagan pitched the ’face flick last year but has gotten too booked up to direct it himself. With a new Exorcist jawn at Blumhouse and a Carrie series for Amazon MGM, who has time for, frankly, a mid-tier-at-best rogues’-gallery member? Really, we’re asking, who’s avail?
There have been eight Clayfaces in the comics, beginning in 1940. Most of them are B-movie actors who go Goo Mode for one reason or another — falling into radioactive protoplasm, a pituitary-gland disorder, a The Substance situation, the list goes on. Harley Quinn’s Clayface (pictured above) became plops of living glop after a “terrible pottery accident.†It’s unknown yet which Clayface origin story is being considered for this new iteration of the character. Regardless, the film will need a leading man who can do “bad†acting really good.
This post has been updated.