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Reminds me of Possessor from Brandon Cronenberg -- at least with the melting faces. Looks like a hardcore body horror flick.

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Looks good. I get this is a DC Studios production, but is it part of the DCU or standalone like Joker?

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Elseworlds aka stand alone

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That's not what I've read.

How Clayface Connects To James Gunn’s DCU

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James Gunn says otherwise.

”"Clayface is totally DCU"

https://www.ign.com/articles/james-g...pic-crime-saga

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Interesting. Well if they are going this dark with Clayface, I am curious what they do with Batman's other rogues, and the Dark Knight himself.

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You guys are obviously mistaken. There wasn’t a single 1970s Dance Rock song in that entire trailer.

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Clayface looks really good. Very creepy with the body horror vibes. Makes total sense for the character though.

I still think should just tie the universe of The Batman into the DCU. Clayface looks to be of similar tone and it’s in the DCU. I just don’t see the point in establishing another new Batman when there’s already a good actor in the role.

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But if you are James Gunn and are the boss of DC, would you really give up your chance to create your own Batman?

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You have to add, they may want to keep Matt Reeves happy as I assume he only signed on to keep his Batman in its own universe. No doubt however Gunn and co. floated the idea of Reeves's Batman being folded into the DCU.

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Truthfully I don’t necessarily see why that matters. It’s just so silly because The Batman Part II is taking forever to release.

Add to that Gunn not wanting to start The Brave and the Bold until after the second Pattinson film, and it’s likely going to be at least 2030 or most likely later until we get a proper DCU Batman. They could just take Reeves universe and adapt it to fit the DCU and I think it would be just fine.

At that point Corenswet will have at least two movies under his belt as Superman. It feels like DC shooting themselves in the foot yet again.

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From a practical stand point you can incorporate The Batman into the new DCU, but it's still Matt Reeves' version. James Gunn has the keys to comic paradise, why would he pass on the chance to create his own Batman? This is a once in a lifetime chance for Gunn and he is the boss, he can decide, so why waste this one chance, only to be practical?

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I mostly just don’t want to have to wait close to five or more years to see Batman interacting with the new DCU when you could make some shifts with Pattinson’s version to make him fit.

Again this trailer very much looks like it would fit in with what Reeves has established so why make a different one just because of egos? It’s silly and a waste of time.

At the rate things are going by the time Batman appears in the DCU Corenswet will probably be near wrapping up as Superman.

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Because it's his job to be practical and think about financial solvency and success? It's not like he's a complete creative that doesn't bear some of that weight.

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He can't do whatever he wants to, but if you start from scratch, which he mostly did, with some adjustments to Peacemaker, you don't take your most popular character and retrofit him into your vision of the new DCU. He had no creative input in Matt Reeves' version of Batman or the Penguin and either way Reeves would have to accomodate Gunn or Gunn would have to work with the world Reeves already established. It's not that Gunn is wasting money on something that isn't likely to make a profit.

The business man is keeping the Reeves version alive, but the creative executive is starting his own thing and I don't see a problem with that. I don't need a team up between Corenswet and Pattinson.

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We don't need a team up at all. However, it'd be a good shortcut and Gunn is clearly not opposed to retrofitting iterations of characters he didn't personally develop. True, those were all minor/supporting characters, but given how well received Pattinson was as Batman, it wouldn't be a bad idea to apply that same strategy with him. However, is Pattinson even interested in doing more than Reeves' intended trilogy? What did he sign up for? A new contract might be rejected by Pattinson outright.

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It wouldn't be a bad idea to integrate Reeves' Batman into the DCU, but it isn't a bad idea to create his own Batman, either. I'm not surprised, that the creative director of the DCU, does not want to let this once in a lifetime chance pass by. I'm not saying his way is the right one, but it is totally understandable