It seems Mike Flanagan may have pitched Warner Bros. on a Clayface movie... and the studio wasn't interested!
Back in January, the Midnight Mass creator responded to a fan who asked if he had any interest in directing a DC Comics-based movie. Flanagan said he'd always been a big Superman fan, but "would also be really keen to do a standalone Clayface movie as a horror/thriller/tragedy."
As cool as this sounded, nobody really gave much thought to the possibility of Flanagan actually pursuing this concept, but the filmmaker has now shared a very interesting update. When asked if anything ever came of his Clayface idea, Flanagan Tweeted: "They didn't bite on that one, though I'm ready to go anytime."
Now, he could well mean that nobody from WB contacted him after his initial Tweet got some traction online, but it's just as possible he actually pitched them on this project and they turned him down - which isn't really that surprising. After all, the Studio has tended to avoid the Dark Knight's more outlandish villains for the most part (Batman and Robin being the exception, of course), preferring to keep the DC hero's big-screen adventures as grounded in reality as possible.
Check out Flanagan's Tweet below, along with the announcement that the horror maestro is set to develop an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher for Netflix.
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