The Surprise Clayface Movie Already Has a Release Date

The year 2024 is ending on a very DC note. With a Superman trailer coming soon, the studio just added release dates to two of its many in-developing movies, officially putting them into the universe. And they both have to do with Batman.

The most surprising is Clayface, the Mike Flanagan-scripted film based on the Batman villain we didn’t know existed until days ago. That’s now coming September 11, 2026. DC also dated Dynamic Duo, the animated Robin movie that was revealed a few weeks back. That’ll be out on June 30, 2028. A totally real date, apparently.

Those follow Superman, which will be out on July 11, 2025, and Supergirl: World of Tomorrow, set for June 26, 2026, as the first four DC Universe movies. And, this is kind of hilarious, but Clayface is now scheduled to beat Matt Reeves’s The Batman Part II—announced in 2022—to theaters. That’s still scheduled for a month later, October 2, 2026, but it certainly feels like that’s going to be moved.

James Gunn, the co-president of DC Studios, announced on social that Clayface had been greenlit and is officially part of the DCU. There’s no word on who’ll direct but Flanagan is not likely to be available. He’s got his own movie, a new take on The Exorcist, coming March 13, 2026.

So, as it stands right now, DC’s first two movies will be Superman-adjacent and the next two will be Batman-adjacent. Makes sense. What makes less sense, though, is Batman not being the star—as far as we know—of either film. It’s an inauspicious turn of events on the same weekend Kraven the Hunter is released, bringing Sony’s non-Spider-Man Spiderverse to a close. The difference here, though, is that DC can use Batman if it chooses. And that one of the films is going to be animated with puppets.

It’s also of note that neither film was one of the several Gunn and his partner Peter Safran announced two years ago when they took over DC. So those projects—Brave and the Bold, The Authority, etc.—are all still out there too.

What are your thoughts on the next two movies in the DC Universe?

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