James Gunn Explains How the Clayface Movie Seemed to Happen so Fast

When James Gunn took implicit DC Studios, helium and spouse Peter Safran had an thought of what they wanted to do. They precise intelligibly laid it retired to the world. A Superman movie, which is coming soon. Creature Commandos, happening close now. Supergirl is in the works soon. But determination were different things too: things that haven’t seen question yet and, astir excitingly, things helium ne'er foresaw. Things similar Clayface which, from our perspective, was seemingly greenlit retired of nowhere.

Not the case, Gunn told io9 earlier this week astatine the Superman trailer motorboat event. We cornered the manager to speech astir the astonishing trailer but besides fig retired precisely what happened that on a Wednesday, the satellite heard Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) had written a movie based connected the Batman villain, Clayface, and aboriginal the aforesaid week, it was greenlit with a merchandise date.

Gunn explained that portion quality of the Clayface movie was archetypal reported past week, it had really been successful the process for immoderate time. Which is benignant of however each things astatine DC enactment nowadays. “I didn’t program connected making a Clayface movie,” Gunn told io9. “Mike came in. He pitched this fantastic idea. I was like, ‘Damn, I can’t judge you got maine to privation to marque a Clayface movie.’ But he’s got to constitute the publication and who knows however that’s going to work. He goes and helium writes the script. First draught is great. Second draught is adjacent better. And past I’m like, ‘Let’s bash it.’ So we recovered a spot for it due to the fact that if there’s prime stuff, we tin find a mode to enactment it in.”

We besides asked if helium is astatine each disquieted that a Clayface movie is present apt to unfastened earlier the adjacent Batman movie, from Matt Reeves, presently scheduled for merchandise a period aft Clayface. “Well, I mean, Clayface is successful the DCU truthful it doesn’t matter,” Gunn said.

That process seems to beryllium a bully illustration of however Gunn and Safran are moving DC astatine the moment. Lots of things could happen, but lone a fewer are decidedly happening. “There are tons of things that are getting reported that I haven’t green-lit and I haven’t said good too,” Gunn told io9. “Some of those are existent successful presumption of they’re successful development, and immoderate of them are not true. [And just] due to the fact that they’re successful development, that doesn’t mean I’m going to marque that movie. There’s a batch of things radical look to beryllium counting connected that it whitethorn beryllium unwise to number on.”

Yikes. What could helium mean by that?

Right now, the confirmed, official, big-screen lineup for the DC Universe is lone arsenic follows:

• Superman – July 11, 2025
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow – June 26, 2026
• Clayface – September 11, 2026
• Dynamic Duo – June 30, 2028

What other are you hoping comes to fruition?

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