DC Studios’ villain-centric Clayface film from Mike Flanagan finds its director with Converse No Evil helmer James Watkins.
DC’s Clayface film is steadily taking form, with Converse No Evil director James Watkins molding the function movie across the fan-favorite Batman villain. Watkins’s appointment to the gig comes after months of trying to find the precise director to adapt the challenge’s script, which was written by horror aficionado Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill Home).
In accordance with sources, studio co-head James Gunn met with Watkins on Thursday for a last presentation that landed Watkins the job. Subsequent comes the drawing of contracts, scheduling, casting, and all that great things. Gunn notoriously had reservations about bringing Clayface to the silver display. Nonetheless, Flanagan’s idea and script had been so good that Gunn couldn’t cross on the chance.
Whereas there’s no scarcity of candidates when selecting from Batman’s in depth rogue’s gallery, the shape-shifting villain Clayface would make a high-quality alternative. Reality be informed, he’s one in every of my favourite Bat-villains of all time. His story is kind of tragic, and his means to morph into any individual or mould his physique into any weapon makes him a formidable foe after which some. Whereas the idea won’t be as “grounded” as Todd Phillips’ execution of The Clown Prince of Crime, I believe Flanagan’s script can be distinctive.
It stays unclear if Flanagan’s Clayface will function Basil Karlo, the mediocre actor whose interplay with a mystical clay transforms him into the monster we all know and love, or Matt Hagen, a scuba diver who finds a mysterious pool of protoplasm that turns his physique right into a malleable clay-like weapon and technique of disguise. Flanagan’s script might introduce a brand new Clayface, although I might see him leaning into the Basil Karlo model. Beforehand, Dave Bautista (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller, Dune: Half Two) expressed curiosity in enjoying Clayface, however that was years in the past. Nonetheless, Bautista has wonderful ties to James Gunn by means of their work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which might give Bautista an edge within the audition division.
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