Clayface DCU Movie Gets Promising Update Amid Writer Shakeup

Extra info has come to gentle relating to why a brand new author has been employed to work on Mike Flanagan’s script for Clayface.

Clayface is a brand new DCU film that can arrive in theaters in 2026. Whereas it wasn’t a part of the preliminary tasks James Gunn and Peter Safran offered when asserting their DCU slate, the film rapidly turned a precedence for DC Studios and Warner Bros. after Flanagan pitched the undertaking.

Gunn stated in February 2025, by way of TheWrap, “Clayface is the loopy one, as a result of we had no plans on making a Clayface film. Mike (Flanagan) got here in and he pitched the Clayface film, and it was nice…so he turned within the script, and it’s top-of-the-line scripts that we learn from the entire time.”

Simply yesterday, nonetheless, TheWrap reported that Drive’s Hossein Amini had been employed to rewrite Flanagan’s Clayface script. Many DC followers puzzled why Flanagan wasn’t doing the rewrites and, moreover, why rewrites have been wanted within the first place.

What’s the newest replace on the Clayface DCU film?

It’s not instantly clear how a lot of the Clayface script Amini is retooling; nonetheless, Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider is reporting that it might be “getting a Web page 1 rewrite.” Having stated that, Sneider additionally stories that “that is par for the course, and most blockbusters cycle by quite a lot of writers for quite a lot of causes.”

In line with Sneider, Flanagan is simply too busy engaged on the Carrie tv present to rewrite his personal script, although he nonetheless may get a writing credit score for the film. That present doesn’t have a premiere date but, because it was simply formally greenlit by Amazon Prime Video final month.

Moreover, Amini has already turned in his rewrite for Clayface, based on Sneider.

Clayface is predicted to enter manufacturing this coming October, although no casting has but been introduced. The film presently has a September 11, 2026, launch date from Warner Bros. Footage.

Initially reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.