Big CLAYFACE Update Shared As More Details On Lobo's SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW Role Are Revealed

Big CLAYFACE Update Shared As More Details On Lobo's SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW Role Are Revealed

We have more big DCU rumours to share with you today, including when Clayface is likely to begin shooting and the extent of Jason Momoa's role as Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Jan 01, 2025 06:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Batman

Last month, DC Studios announced plans for a Clayface movie that will arrive in theaters on September 11, 2026. Midnight Mass and Doctor Sleep's Mike Flanagan has penned the screenplay, though no director or star has been announced. 

According to scooper @MyTimeToShineH, a director is expected to be chosen early this month with shooting potentially beginning either at the end of this month or by February.

That's a very quick turnaround, though DC Studios co-CEO and Superman director James Gunn did recently share, "Exciting news out of [DC] Studios today as [Clayface], a DCU story from a script by Mike Flanagan, has been OFFICIALLY greenlit. Clayface premieres in 2026."

With the script ready to shoot and the project expected to be a relatively low-budget one, it likely won't take long to find a director and cast (all of whom may already be in talks).

Why is Clayface shooting so soon? Well, the majority of the movie's production is bound to be spent on visual effects bringing the Batman villain to life on screen. There's been speculation online that Andy Muschietti could helm the movie as a means of introducing the Dark Knight in the DCU before The Brave and the Bold

The scooper has also weighed in on the news that Aquaman star Jason Momoa will play Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. We've already told you that he'll have more than a cameo and the leaker adds to that by saying, "Jason Momoa[is] only filming Supergirl for a few weeks. So not a cameo, but not a big role either."

Multiple attempts have been made to bring Lobo to the big screen over the years. Guy Ritchie and Brad Peyton both took stabs, with Dwayne Johnson circling the roll for the latter's take. In 2018, Michael Bay looked set to take charge of the movie but that also never came to fruition.

For Momoa, Lobo is a character he's been dreaming of bringing to life on screen for upwards of a decade. There's been no word on what Gunn has planned for Aquaman in the DCU, though comments about Arthur Curry in Peacemaker season 1 suggest he might not be the Atlantean's biggest fan.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is currently scheduled to be DC Studios' second DCU title and will be helmed by Cruella director Craig Gillespie. Ana Nogueira (The Vampire Diaries) penned the screenplay after originally being hired to write the Supergirl movie starring Sasha Calle.

In the DC Studios movie, Supergirl travels across the galaxy to celebrate her 21st birthday with Krypto the Superdog. Along the way, she meets a young woman named Ruthye and winds up on a murderous quest for revenge.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow arrives in theaters on June 26, 2026.

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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 1/1/2025, 7:04 AM
Omg just get jonathañ majors to play post creamy accident Basil Karlo and get Pablo Lyle to play Matg Hagen....hell you can put Hunter Shafer to play Preston Payne and make a clay. Futanari shlong ..im so lonely hapoy new year people!
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/1/2025, 7:32 AM
I wouldn’t be surprised if we do get a director for Clayface soon and possibly even star but I don’t buy it shooting as soon as the end of this or next month…

Regardless of it being a smaller project or not , the director & actor both would still need time to prep so I don’t see it happening until later this year.

I’m still concerned about someone else directing Mike Flanagan’s script since that hasn’t ever happened to my knowledge before so fingers crossed it turns out well , I’ll remain cautiously optimistic for now even though I wish he was the one at the helm aswell…

Hopefully the Fly inspiration is true though since it’s a good approach to the character imo.

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LibraMatter
LibraMatter - 1/1/2025, 7:41 AM
I sincerely hope these movies come out great. Gunn has most of my faith but it’s not easy. For as much crap people gave Snyder they make it seem like in most other directors and DC movie universe builders would 100 get it right. Hopefully Gunn proves that to be the case.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/1/2025, 7:50 AM
@LibraMatter - I hope so but like anything , not every aspect if not the universe itself will be for everyone…

There are many fans who have their own ideas ,tastes and sensibilities of how both the DC & Marvel universes should be so there’s no way you can 100 satisfy all in this day & age

Hopefully he does well though with the DC universe he does help create though , it already seems more to my liking then Snyder’s.
ItsNotForMeWahh
ItsNotForMeWahh - 1/1/2025, 8:35 AM
@LibraMatter - Snyder broke a lot of good will surrounding the DC characters. I am hopeful as well but am still cautious as the trailer didn't really resonate with me.

That said Gunn has a good track record so hopefully he will hit the mark
dragon316
dragon316 - 1/1/2025, 12:55 PM
@LibraMatter - have see it find out what
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/1/2025, 7:45 AM
Lobo apparently not having a big role in Supergirl:Woman of Tomorrow isn’t surprising considering he isn’t in the comic the movie is adapting in the first place (though was originally suppose to be)…

My guess is he’ll take the place of the bounty hunter Ruthye originally tries to hire until Kara steps in.

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As you can see , she embarrasses him in the story but the hunter does come back later in the first issue and helps Krem against Supergirl which ends badly for her and kicks off the journey.

I can already hear people complaining about him being her punching bag or them “nerfing” Lobo if that is the case but that’s the only logical function I can see him have in the story unless they create a new one…

Perhaps he has history with Krem already and points Kara & Ruthye in the right direction or even leads them to him?.
TheShape9859
TheShape9859 - 1/1/2025, 8:07 AM
Role,not roll lol
rexlincoln92
rexlincoln92 - 1/1/2025, 9:29 AM
Quick fyi, Flanagan will be busy directing his new exorcist film which is due out in 2026. Not to mention he's still developing the dark tower series. So yeah, not surprised he hasn't got time to direct this.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/1/2025, 9:35 AM
@rexlincoln92 - yes

He’s also I think developing a Carrie show for Amazon so understandably , he’s busy.
KaptainKhaos
KaptainKhaos - 1/1/2025, 11:55 AM
Fake until confirmed by James Gunn.

Let's make 2025 the year Josh stopped relying on some Twitter bot for "news"
TheLobster
TheLobster - 1/1/2025, 2:14 PM
@KaptainKhaos - I would agree but Gunn has lied about multiple things last year lol
TruePunishment
TruePunishment - 1/1/2025, 3:05 PM
@TheLobster - name one.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 1/2/2025, 12:32 AM
@TruePunishment - Half the slate he announced almost 2 years ago now is not promised to ever be developed because they don't have for any of them a script despite being how he set up his first Chapter for the DCU storytelling.

The "didn't fire Henry Cavill" argument as well.

That the actors in the DCU wouldn't play more than 1 role yet to keep continuity yet we have Alan Tudyk and Sean Gunn have multitude of roles, especially the latter going from Weasel to G.I. Robot and Maxwell Lord in live-action.

Blue Beetle is the "first DCU character" and yet there's zero progress in his animated sequel series following up his film.

He criticized how previously they gave away any IP of DC to whoever came and ask for them yet when Mike Flanagan showed up to say he had a pitch for Clayface he ended up getting it regardless the character not even being in the plans. Same thing with James Mangold asking for Swamp Thing and he isn't anywhere close to working it.

And it can keep going on. He's good, but even he has limits and has contradicted himself a couple of times.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 1/2/2025, 12:34 AM
For Lobo to just have a very short amount of timescreen after last year's breaking news would be very disappointing. If not having the potential to kill a bit the hype. Hopefully it isn't true.

Mike Flanagan honestly should be the one to direct his own script. He gets it better than anyone else, that's how he's done all his projects. Unless they get someone really good like Fede Alvarez or close to that.
mck13
mck13 - 1/2/2025, 6:16 AM
Gunn is ONLY good with UNKNOWN characters & C LIST charcters. The reason why there's NO BIG 3 being planned etc. DC has no vision & no point to their stories. No connected stories, villains etc. The DC is ALL OVER THE PLACE. A mess!!!
Superman will FAIL.
blackiron777
blackiron777 - 1/2/2025, 8:01 AM
@mck13 - I agree and disagree. I agree that the reason it seems Gunn is dancing around giving us the big 3 soon in this new DCU is because I personally believe he doesn't have a plan. I believe Gunn is sticking to his what he knows best and that is c list characters. I don't believe however Superman will flop, I think Superman will perform good enough to allow Gunn to believe that what he is doing is going to continue to work in the long term.

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