The Surprise Clayface Movie Already Has a Release Date

The twelvemonth 2024 is ending connected a precise DC note. With a Superman trailer coming soon, the workplace conscionable added merchandise dates to 2 of its galore in-developing movies, officially putting them into the universe. And they some person to bash with Batman.

The astir astonishing is Clayface, the Mike Flanagan-scripted movie based connected the Batman villain we didn’t cognize existed until days ago. That’s present coming September 11, 2026. DC besides dated Dynamic Duo, the animated Robin movie that was revealed a fewer weeks back. That’ll beryllium retired connected June 30, 2028. A wholly existent date, apparently.

Those travel Superman, which volition beryllium retired connected July 11, 2025, and Supergirl: World of Tomorrow, acceptable for June 26, 2026, arsenic the archetypal 4 DC Universe movies. And, this is benignant of hilarious, but Clayface is present scheduled to bushed Matt Reeves’s The Batman Part II—announced successful 2022—to theaters. That’s inactive scheduled for a period later, October 2, 2026, but it surely feels similar that’s going to beryllium moved.

James Gunn, the co-president of DC Studios, announced connected societal that Clayface had been greenlit and is officially portion of the DCU. There’s nary connection connected who’ll nonstop but Flanagan is not apt to beryllium available. He’s got his ain movie, a caller instrumentality connected The Exorcist, coming March 13, 2026.

So, arsenic it stands close now, DC’s archetypal 2 movies volition beryllium Superman-adjacent and the adjacent 2 volition beryllium Batman-adjacent. Makes sense. What makes little sense, though, is Batman not being the star—as acold arsenic we know—of either film. It’s an inauspicious crook of events connected the aforesaid play Kraven the Hunter is released, bringing Sony’s non-Spider-Man Spiderverse to a close. The quality here, though, is that DC tin usage Batman if it chooses. And that 1 of the films is going to beryllium animated with puppets.

It’s besides of enactment that neither movie was 1 of the respective Gunn and his spouse Peter Safran announced 2 years agone erstwhile they took implicit DC. So those projects—Brave and the Bold, The Authority, etc.—are each inactive retired determination too.

What are your thoughts connected the adjacent 2 movies successful the DC Universe?

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