Long before The Batman: Part II is released in theaters, one of Batman's iconic villains will be appearing on the big screen in Clayface. James Watkins directs the upcoming DC Studios film, but The Batman director Matt Reeves is involved, serving in a producer role. That involvement might confuse some viewers about what connection Clayface has to the multiple continuities that exist within Warner Bros. and DC Studios.

Many different characters have held the Clayface identity throughout Batman's history, but the character has existed in some form since the Golden Age of Comics, debuting in 1940's Detective Comics #40. While Clayface never had the notoriety of Batman villains like the Joker and Penguin, the character gained mainstream popularity thanks to Batman: The Animated Series. The cartoon served as inspiration for Mike Flanagan, best known as the creator of Midnight Mass and Amazon's recent Carrie reboot. Flanagan wrote the screenplay for Clayface alongside Hossein Amini.

Matt Reeves' The Batman puts a hard-boiled detective spin on the character, allowing the dark knight to exist front and center.

Clayface is set in the rebooted DCU , which officially kicked off with 2025's Superman . That places it in the same universe as movies like Supergirl and HBO's recent Lanterns TV series . DC Studios co-chairmen and co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran have integrated some elements from previous DC movies into this universe, most notably characters like Xolo Mariduena's Blue Beetle and John Cena's Peacemaker. However, DC has confirmed that The Batman movies take place within their own separate universe , so viewers should not expect to see Robert Pattinson showing up in Clayface or any other DCU projects.

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