DC Studios Greenlights Clayface Movie Written by Mike Flanagan
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. Variety is reporting that a movie about the Batman villain Clayface is coming down the pike. Written by Mike Flanagan, the film 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 with which origin story is being considered for this new iteration of the character. Regardless, the film will need a leading mad who can do “bad” acting really good.
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