James Gunn is serious about the Clayface movie we learned about earlier this week. How serious? The film, which is still without a director, already has a release date of September 11th 2026. Along with that news, Warner Bros. has also set the Dynamic Duo animated movie for June 30th 2028 in IMAX.
Clayface has horror maestro Mike Flanagan aboard as writer, and he’ll be turning the Bat-villain into a tragic figure but also one that fits into the genre Flanagan knows best. Gunn has said on Threads the film will fit within the DCU, meaning it’ll be in the same universe as Superman and Creature Commandos, the latter already featuring the character as voiced by Alan Tudyk. The presumption is that Tudyk will continue to play Clayface in live-action.
James Gunn and Peter Safran will produce for DC Studios.
There have been several takes on Clayface in the pages of DC Comics. Introduced in the pages of Detective Comics in 1940 as Hollywood actor Basil Karlo, the most popular version has him becoming a clay-like shapeshifting metahuman often seen in Batman: The Animated Series.
The news about Dynamic Duo was revealed back in October, and it’s an animated movie that will center on the Robins, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. The DC Studios/Warner Bros. Pictures Animation feature will follow “the early days of Dick Grayson and Jason Todd aka the Robins. The duo call themselves the Dynamic Duo. They’re orphan thieves, best friends who share dreams of a better life, but their friendship will be tested by competing visions of a future out of which will come a new Dynamic Duo.”
Directing the project is Arthur Mintz, from a script by Lightyear and Coco writer Matthew Aldrich. Mintz and his wife Theresa Anderson lead the studio Swaybox, which will be doing animation on Dynamic Duo. Swaybox reportedly uses a new technology, “Momo Animation”, described as a mix of CGI, practical effects, stop-motion, and live-action real-time performance to create “visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive, and more human.”
Gunn and Safran are producing, joined by The Batman director Matt Reeves although Dynamic Duo is not set in the same Elseworlds universe as that film.
