Mike Flanagan’s Clayface’s film is receiving a rewriting from the writer Drive Hossein Amini

While DC Studios is still going on with ClayThe Horror Ra-Ad movie focused on Batman’s villain who moved the shape, the project is now going through some unexpected changes.

According to Thewrap, Mike FlanaganThe original screenplay is reworked, this time with the help of the screenwriter appointed to the Oscar Hossein Amini. Known for writing Guide and co-creation McMafiaAmini is now remodeling the screenplay of the film, adding a new creative voice to the story.

This is an interesting change for a project that had already excited DC and horror fans. According to reports, the film was subjected to a “complete” rewriting “rewriting, which means they are starting from scratch.

Flanagan, the mind behind The pursuit of Hill House, Midnight massAND Sleep doctorOriginally launched and written Clayface as a dark psychological thriller intertwined with horror of the grotesque body.

Heads dc studios James Gunn AND Peter Safran They were all-in on Flanagan’s vision. In February, Gunn described the script as “pure horror, so real and true, psychological, horror of the body and gross”.

Safran supported him, calling Clayface an “incredible horror film of the body that reveals the compelling origin of a classic Batman’s bad.” He also compared his emotional and psychological depth with the past Gripty tackles Joker and the penguin, saying that the story is “equally resonant” and “in many ways more terrifying”.

Gunn also recalled his first days of production of Safran’s horror, saying: “One of the things that Peter and I spoke when we got the first time [Clayface] The script was: “If we were producing [DC] Film when we were doing Belko experiment and someone had brought this horror screenplay called Clayface, on this boy, we would have died of having produced this film. Why [Clayface] It was just a truly excellent horror script. And the fact that it is in the DCU is only an advantage. “

So why rewrite a script that they were already so enthusiastic about? It is not entirely clear, but I assume that Flanagan is too busy working on his Carrie series to return to work again on the script.

James Watkins (Don’t speak badly) is attached to direct and both Matt Reeves (The Batman) AND Lynn Harris (Lama) are producing.

Amini has previously worked on projects such as The alienist, Snow White and HunterAND Our type of traitorSo he has a mixture of work and his involvement does not drop the excitement quite.

Independently, Clay It will be exuded in cinemas on 11 September 2026.