Mike Flanagan, director of Doctor Sleep and creator of such Netflix miniseries as Midnight Mass, has written a script that met the approval of Gunn and DC Studios, says The Hollywood Reporter. However, Flanagan won’t be directing and the search for the person to see his vision through is ongoing.

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But the original version of Clayface, which dates back to the 1940s, was Basil Karlo, a has-been actor who wears a scary mask, dresses like the Phantom of the Opera who left the theater to join the mafia, and kills people. That certainly fits the mainstream sensibility more than a cracked-toothed mud man.