The director told Deadline at SDCC 2026 the story of how he got on board with DC Studios' new heads: "They came to me. They sent me the script by Mike Flanagan, which I read and thought, 'This is really interesting.' The journey of this, the bones of this, is a monster story, a story of identity, of who we are, and how we define ourselves," he said, referring to the horror maestro behind The Haunting of Hill House and how his writing hooked him.
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Watkins cites that the villain's introduction, the animated series episode arcs, and ongoing comic runs that centered around Clayface informed his take: "Everything, the Basil Karlo, Matt Hagen and all the variations." Mike Flanagan's Clayface script takes heavy inspiration from the character's iconic turn in Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, and Paul Dini's exploration of the Caped Crusader's mythos in Batman: The Animated Series.
In the '90s generation of after-school shows on WB Kids, the lore expanded to make Matt Hagen more of a tragic figure in Batman's rogues' gallery. It gave the actor-gone-bad a fan-favorite origin story, with subsequent arcs around how he is changed psychologically by the freak accident that leaves him with a horrific figure composed of clay that allows him to transform into any shape.
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Watch the latest trailer below which dropped right before SDCC 2026 kicked off:
Clayface will be followed by Superman follow-up Man of Tomorrow in 2027 and Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel in 2028. However, don't expect them all to be fully connected in any way, as the studio aims to tell stories that won't always be constrained by shared universes.
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