{"id":275866,"date":"2025-07-19T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275866\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:44:11","slug":"james-gunn-teases-dcus-clayface-its-a-complete-horror-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/275866\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Teases DCU’s ‘Clayface’ \u2014\u00a0‘It’s a Complete Horror Film’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with CBS Mornings<\/a>, \u201cSuperman\u201d director James Gunn<\/a> discussed his vision for the DC Comics Universe<\/a>\u2026 which is truly less a singular vision and more an overarching investment in creativity. With a diverse slate of characters \u2014\u00a0that beyond Clark Kent\u2019s alter ego\u00a0also of course includes Batman<\/a>, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern \u2014\u00a0Gunn explained that a uniform style cannot be dictated from movie to movie. He used as an example Clayface<\/a>, a Batman villain that is set for his own feature with a Mike Flanagan-penned script and directed by \u201cSpeak No Evil\u201d filmmaker James Watkins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got Clayface, which is a totally different thing,\u201d Gunn said (via ScreenRant<\/a>). \u201cAlthough it\u2019s in the same universe, it\u2019s a complete horror film<\/a>. That\u2019s one of the things we want to do. There\u2019s not a company style. It\u2019s not like every movie is going to be like \u2018Superman.\u2019 The artists \u2014 the directors and the writers \u2014 each one will bring their own sense to it\u2026 That\u2019s what we want to bring to the films because we don\u2019t want people to get bored. We want to invigorate people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Lindsay<\/a> \"Jennifer<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cClayface\u201d is expected in theaters on September 11, 2026<\/a>. Clayface\u2019s nemesis Batman, meanwhile, is likely to next appear in Matt Reeves\u2019 follow-up<\/a> to 2022\u2019s \u201cThe Batman.\u201d \u201cListen, we\u2019re supposed to get a script in June,\u201d Gunn told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> in February. \u201cI hope that happens. We feel really good about it. Matt\u2019s excited. I talk to Matt all the time. I\u2019m totally excited about it. So we can\u2019t wait to read the scripts, but we haven\u2019t read it yet, if that\u2019s your question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Reeves delivered that script in June<\/a>, right on schedule, and the sequel is currently scheduled for an October 1, 2027, release date.<\/p>\n

Next up in the DCU<\/a> will be \u201cSupergirl,\u201d which was teed up at the end of \u201cSuperman\u201d and will hit theaters June 26, 2026. The titular character is portrayed by Milly Alcock. In May, the actress told IndieWire<\/a> that she hadn\u2019t received any advice from anyone on stepping into the iconic role \u2014\u00a0first played on screen by Helen Slater<\/a> \u2014\u00a0though she did ask.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were just like, \u2018Prepare to be bruised, there will be battle scars, and you\u2019ll be proud of them.\u2019 That definitely happened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview with CBS Mornings, \u201cSuperman\u201d director James Gunn discussed his vision for the DC Comics Universe\u2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[7531,103329,92927,77,3063,19919,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-275866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-batman","9":"tag-clayface","10":"tag-dcu","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-film","13":"tag-james-gunn","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114882325050123110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}