The last few months have seen Warner Bros.fast - tracka movie starring the Batman villainClayface . After recent reports about a director hunt , the studio apartment has named its alternative : James Watkins , antecedently ofEden Lakeand 2024’sSpeak No Evilremake .
grant to theHollywood Reporter , Watkins pass with flying colors his presentation to James Gunn and will now helm the film , whose playscript come from popular horror author - manager Mike Flanagan . Whatever this moving-picture show ends up being , THR say to expect something with a $ 40 million budget that ’s likely to dart afterward this yr . Whoever end up cop the persona of Clayface — here , a pass actor who shoot himself with a meat ( notthat one ) that ends up yield him shapeshifting abilities — is expect to also play the character outside of alive - activity , as is Gunn ’s edict for the whole DC picture slate .
Clayface will be the first Batman villain who is n’t a chaotic murder clown around to headline a solo motion picture . He tends to appear fairly regularly alfresco of comics : in animation , he ’s been inBatman : The Animated Series , The Batman(both as Basil Karlo and original fictitious character Ethan Bennett ) , andBatman : Caped Crusader . ( Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger also voiced him in theBatwheelscartoon — no , really . ) He ’s also popped up in theLego Batmangames , and even come to live - action in bothGothamandPennyworth , where the character was reimagined as a adult female . Most of late , Alan Tudyk voiced the villain during his brief appearance inCreature Commandos , and he also voice the persona inHarley Quinn .
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Expect James Watkins’Clayfaceto hit theaters September 11 , 2026 .
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