>The movie will follow Matt Hagen, a handsome up-and-coming actor who’s attacked and disfigured. Originally from Gotham, he moves to Hollywood to escape his troubled past and begin a career as an actor. With his disfigurement, his career and outlet as an actor is ruined and is eventually transformed into a shapeshifting monster.

>Hagen’s love interest and co-star is Dr. Caitlin Bates, an original character created for the film. She is the CEO of a biotech startup seeking to create cutting-edge medical technology. Bates sees Hagen as a way to grow her company and cure his condition. Throughout the process she falls in love with him while her fiance John grows suspicious of their relationship. John is a detective and committed to Caitlin and his job. The antagonist of the film is set to be a crime boss, who like Caitlin and John, is another original character. At the moment, the film is not set to feature any recognizable DC Comics characters and most notably no apperances or references to Batman.

https://www.nexuspointnews.com/post/exclusive-what-we-know-about-dc-studios-clayface

>>149414144 (OP)
how does he look fit but like a smackhead at the same type

>>149414144 (OP)
>At the moment, the film is not set to feature any recognizable DC Comics characters and most notably no apperances or references to Batman.
Then fucking pitch it. I don't want another Joker

>>149414144 (OP)
>Don't even have the balls to keep Hagen gay.

>>149414186
This. This shit didn’t work for Sony

>>149414268
It didn't work because they were all trying to be blockbusters with sizable budgets, Clayface will only cost $40 million so they can easily market this as a standalone horror movie.

or you could just...set it in gotham city? you don't have to have batman show up; just pull a gotham and use supporting characters that would logically turn up.

>>149414289
I guess they're still trying to figure out its look for the DCU and Andy Muschetti doesn't to be beholden to the spinoff movie for how he wants to depict the city

>>149414276
Not him but people are sick of these shitty villain projects so far removed from the material and their heroic adversaries

>>149414327
that's a reasonable issue, but batman has never really been all that concerned about the cityscape looking identical between projecs, even when they're the same continuity. but also, gotham city is the most important location in dc comics. decide what it looks like.

>>149414144 (OP)
I liked it better when it was an off-the-shelf cosmetic that happened to be mutagen (if I was writing that, I'd have Thorne having Intergang connections), but sure, cutting-edge medical tech. that's fine..

Tell you what, I don't take this creepy face seriously as a handsome actor though. what even Is he?

>>149414343
wait, this is a clayface MOVIE?
that's fucking retarded. make a movie about batman fighting clayface, don't make a clayface movie. When the fucking hell was the last time we got to just have a Batman movie about him fighting Batman villains, and not getting caught up in crazy JL stuff?

>>149414695
The Batman

>>149414683
those are cheekbones, one of the classic features of male beauty, in a photo that exaggerates them. you can find other pictures of that guy where they look more normal, though still prominent.

>>149414144 (OP)
He will end up looking like Demi Moore's monster form in The Substance.

>>149414186
funnily enough, by removing all connections to batman, it avoids that.

>>149414144 (OP)
I'm actually hopeul for this movie and I wanna see it be really good because I like Clayface

>>149414193
Clayface was never gay.

>>149414144 (OP)
>The antagonist of the film is set to be a crime boss, who like Caitlin and John, is another original character.
That's stupid, why not make it Daggett like in the animated series?

>>149415704
I forget how the animated version went, but was it all in Gotham? New characters in similar roles would make sense. But then I don't see a real need to have the story in LA.

>>149415746
It was, but if Gotham is the "New York" of the DC Universe, it isn't unfeasible to have an actor and a crime boss using a cosmetics company as a front to be bouncing between two major coastal cities, like how actors and high-powered businessmen regularly travel between NY and LA.

>>149415798
Yes, the premise of a story about an actor can work in any of the three cities in question or any combination of them. I don't see the need to move the character at all, but it's also not insane to have originals replicating narrative functions in a new place. But why do it at all? You can have a Gotham City story where Batman doesn't appear. He's not immortal and he doesn't handle every single incident.

>>149415509
>For crying out loud, Teddy! I've already told you a hundred times! Not when we are at the studio!

>>149414144 (OP)
whats the point of not mentioning batman?
have some throwaway line about a vigilante in gotham and don't show him

>>149414144 (OP)
>Hagen’s love interest and co-star is Dr. Caitlin Bates, an original character created for the film. She is the CEO of a biotech startup seeking to create cutting-edge medical technology. Bates sees Hagen as a way to grow her company and cure his condition. Throughout the process she falls in love with him while her fiance John grows suspicious of their relationship.
https://youtu.be/IxOby9fQrpU?si=gx8rnLi0O1-ND3vS

>>149414144 (OP)
This sounds distressingly similar to the "SUMC" formula. At least the Penguin show kept in mind that its protagonist was a villain, I hope this project will too.

>>149414695
like literally every Batman film outside of BVS and Justice League?

>>149415979
The writers have outright said it was never their intention but like the fact that people retroactively think he was gay

>>149415979
>>149417029
You could make the argument they were hiding it in innuendo and were lying, but they could have easily just said that they were being subversive and it was their intention the entire time. Despite that oppertunity given to them they haven't claimed it.

>>149414144 (OP)
Why not have Black Mask in the movie? He owns a cosmetics company in the comics.

>>149414144 (OP)
What is up with this dude's face? I understand a jawline is pretty attractive most of the time but he looks like one of those guys that ate plastic bottle caps.

>>149414158
The sunken cheeks

>>149414158
Because he is drawn by Bart Sears.

>>149414695
Because those Villian movies are made by people who want to make a drama or horror movie but know without a hook (Batman/superhero) noone will watch it.

>>149414144 (OP)
So we're getting 90% human man and then 5 minutes of giant blob Clayface aren't we?

>>149414695
Anon, this is obviously another repurposed script with capeshitbait. This is the only way directors can pitch mid budget flicks now

>>149418035
With this cheap ass budget that's the best they can do. That's pretty much what the 80s Fly did anyway, it was a slow transformation.

>>149414144 (OP)
>More villain movies without the heroes they're supposed to face off against
You'd think they'd learn from Sony repeatedly eating shit.

>Batman Bought?
>Clay it

>>149414144 (OP)
I've said it before, but this dude is far too attractive, not that Matt Hagen is necessarily that - and I do acknowledge that he's an actor but unless he was a 'Hollywood' type actor only, e.g. a wannabe soap opera, spends off-time at the gym type actor, but there are plenty of people (see Jimmy Stewart or Robert Downey, JR. or other people like it)

>>149419526
No.