The Shock Clayface Film Already Has a Launch Date

The yr 2024 is ending on a really DC word. With a Superman trailer coming quickly, the studio simply added launch dates to 2 of its many in-developing motion pictures, formally placing them into the universe. They usually each need to do with Batman.

Essentially the most shocking is Clayface, the Mike Flanagan-scripted movie primarily based on the Batman villain we didn’t know existed until days ago. That’s now coming September 11, 2026. DC additionally dated Dynamic Duo, the animated Robin movie that was revealed a number of weeks again. That’ll be out on June 30, 2028. A very actual date, apparently.

These comply with Superman, which will probably be out on July 11, 2025, and Supergirl: World of Tomorrow, set for June 26, 2026, as the primary 4 DC Universe motion pictures. And, that is form of hilarious, however Clayface is now scheduled to beat Matt Reeves’s The Batman Half II—announced in 2022—to theaters. That’s nonetheless scheduled for a month later, October 2, 2026, nevertheless it actually seems like that’s going to be moved.

James Gunn, the co-president of DC Studios, introduced on social that Clayface had been greenlit and is formally a part of the DCU. There’s no phrase on who’ll direct however Flanagan is just not more likely to be obtainable. He’s acquired his personal film, a brand new tackle The Exorcist, coming March 13, 2026.

So, because it stands proper now, DC’s first two motion pictures will probably be Superman-adjacent and the subsequent two will probably be Batman-adjacent. Is sensible. What makes much less sense, although, is Batman not being the star—so far as we all know—of both movie. It’s an inauspicious flip of occasions on the identical weekend Kraven the Hunter is launched, bringing Sony’s non-Spider-Man Spiderverse to an in depth. The distinction right here, although, is that DC can use Batman if it chooses. And that one of many movies goes to be animated with puppets.

It’s additionally of word that neither movie was one of many a number of Gunn and his accomplice Peter Safran introduced two years in the past once they took over DC. So these initiatives—Courageous and the Daring, The Authority, and so forth.—are all nonetheless on the market too.

What are your ideas on the subsequent two motion pictures within the DC Universe?

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