Mike Flanagan is a creative talent best known for his horror content, ranging from Stephen King adaptations like Doctor Sleep and the upcoming Dark Tower series, to Netflix offerings like The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. However, Flanagan has been wanting to contribute to the superhero media space for a while, specifically by directing a movie centered on the Batman villain Clayface. While that project was never greenlit for the DC Extended Universe, apparently it may have new life.
According to Deadline, Mike Flanagan met with DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran to pitch his Clayface movie, one in which the character wouldn’t be depicted as a bad guy. While Warner Bros. Pictures hasn’t greenlit the project, the studio also hasn’t said no to it either, leaving it in a limbo state. It was also mentioned that this Clayface movie isn’t intended to be tied to Matt Reeves’ The Batman world, but the publication has also heard from other sources that as thing currently stand, that character is set to be a “big addition” to The Batman: Part II.
