DC Studios’ ‘Clayface’ Being Written By Mike Flanagan

deadline.com:

Clayface is officially joining the new DC Universe more than a year after Mike Flanagan pitched his take on the shapeshifting supervillain.

Deadline has confirmed that Flanagan has been tapped to write the script for DC Studios amid his work on the upcoming Exorcist reboot.

We understand the studio is still searching for a director. Flanagan has expressed his interest in making a standalone Clayface movie, writing on Twitter in 2021 that he wants to approach the film as a “horror/thriller/tragedy.” In March 2023, our sources told us that Flanagan’s take on Clayface will not feature the character as a villain, after the writer and his Intrepid Pictures partner Trevor Macy had a meeting with DC Bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran, who took over at DC Studios in 2022.

Although Flanagan wasn’t pitching the character to be part of Matt Reeves’ DC elseworld, other sources have said that Clayface is a big addition to Reeves’ The Batman 2.