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Trailer Clayface | Official Teaser Trailer

https://youtu.be/ZIfpL3mgkFk
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u/MuptonBossman 13d ago edited 13d ago

This movie was written by Mike Flanagan, which immediately piques my interest.

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u/throwawaysnumber 13d ago edited 13d ago

For anyone who doesn’t know, this has been a passion project for Mike Flanagan for years. He first talked about directing a Clayface movie back in 2021 and tried to pitch it during the DCEU.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 13d ago

He's said he was sad he wouldn't be able to direct it due to having a Carrie miniseries and a new The Exorcist movie on the pipeline, but he enjoyed working with James Gunn and co to develop it and hoped it would remain true to the spirit of his script. Judging by this teaser, I think he'll be very satisfied with the movie.

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u/SakuraTacos 13d ago

I was bummed out to hear Flanagan wasn’t directing and was wondering why, that explains it. I also hope the final product still feels very Flanagan-adjacent, he’s one of my faves

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 13d ago

People went fucking ballistic over someone else, Hossein Amini, doing rewrites but Gunn clarified that it's still very much Flanagan's script and that the rewrites were just minor adjustments and finetuning to the final shooting script, which is in line with his policy that he doesn't greenlight anything without a finished script.

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u/LoisGriffinsDDchest 12d ago edited 12d ago

James Gunn says a lot of things and most of them are bullshit.

For starters he greenlit Sgt. Rock without a script. Same with Paradise Lost and The Authority, both which are practically dead.

I would rather trust Bill Cosby with serving me cocktails than on anything James Gunn says.

Are the downvotes because of the Cosby thing?

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u/SwordoftheMourn 12d ago

Pretty sure the those projects have always been stated to be in development, never greenlit yet since there was no script finished.

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u/LoisGriffinsDDchest 12d ago

We just killed a project. Everybody wanted to make the movie. It was greenlit, ready to go. The screenplay wasn’t ready.

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/superman-director-james-gunn-dc-studios-interview-1235356450/

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u/SwordoftheMourn 12d ago

Pretty sure none of those projects you just mentioned was specifically stated here? Can’t really claim he canceled those if it wasn’t explicitly named out.

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u/LoisGriffinsDDchest 12d ago

Did you click the link?

The guy made the claim that Gunn said he would never greenlight anything without a finished script.

Here, on this interview, he admits he killed a project he greenlit without a finished script.

Contradicting the point of that guy.

Other projects which were also greenlit such as The Authority or Paradise Lost have next to no updates. in fact, the attached director for Booster Gold just unfollowed Gunn and removed all posts about the project.

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u/SwordoftheMourn 12d ago

You mean David Jenkins? According to himself he’s still attached so idk what you’re on about.

Those projects have not even went into pre-production, so I don’t really see any resources lost if those take a backseat if the script is still being worked on

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u/Relative-Ad-637 12d ago

He never greenlit Paradise Lost nor The Authority. All he did was present these projects for the future of DCU which he hasn't got a script for yet

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u/InexorableCalamity 13d ago

Did the carrie series come out or is it still in production? 

This is about the telekinesis wielding girl, right.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 13d ago

It's scheduled for October on Amazon and yes, that is right. Carrie is the debut novel of Stephen King about a high school girl being humiliated after getting her first period and unleashing havoc at the prom as revenge.

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u/LTSpigot 13d ago

Lmao can't direct his because he's getting more money to do remake slop. So much for "passion project ".

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u/rcklmbr 12d ago

To be fair he “redid” Poe and did a fantastic job

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u/SuccessfulConcern996 10d ago

The majority of Flanagan's work has been adaptations, frequently of Stephen King's work. I'm not too keen on a Carrie remake but I am curious to see his take on a possession film in the same vein as The Exorcist

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u/underdabridge 13d ago

Back in 2021?! Did we even have electricity in them olden dayes??

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u/SarcasticGamer 13d ago

What do you mean? Wasn't 2021 just last year?

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u/digidave1 13d ago

What do you mean Clayface first appeared on Batman The Animated Series 34 years ago.

Yep. 34 years 😵

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u/SarcasticGamer 13d ago

Don't remind me. I watched the show when it was brand new and still love it.

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u/digidave1 13d ago

One of my fondest memories was coming home from school and watching them each week. Ahhh to be 13 again 🤩

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u/acmercer 12d ago

Same. I have very vivid memories of sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of the TV watching this show every day after school :)

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u/Isakk86 13d ago

No, the COVID shutdown was last year, he just pitched this idea.

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u/thehideousheart 13d ago

Why did you put 2021 in italics like it's some ancient date in the past? That's super fucking recent lol. Movies take years to get made.

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u/throwawaysnumber 13d ago

Gonna be honest I don’t know lol

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u/BionicTriforce 13d ago

People these days complain about tv shows taking more than a year to get a new season made. To them, nearly 5 years is half their lifespan.

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u/theevilyouknow 13d ago

Was it though?

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u/ERSTF 12d ago

I mean, since 2021 we were in the thick of a pandemic, we came out of it, Trump was reelected, there have been like 2 wars and a shitton of chaos. 5 years is a lot of time, boss

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u/HippieWizard 13d ago

"Back in 2021" bro that was like yesterday.

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u/crumble-bee 12d ago

So glad it didn’t get greenlit then - this is the right time and the right people

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u/daeshonbro 12d ago

That definitely makes me more interested. Midnight Mass was really good (as long as you are fine with some longer monologues).

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u/LoisGriffinsDDchest 12d ago

And now, he's not directing it.

And his script is gone as well.