CLAYFACE Set Photos Reveal Gotham City Map And Some Iconic Locations - But Is It The Same As THE BATMAN?

CLAYFACE Set Photos Reveal Gotham City Map And Some Iconic Locations - But Is It The Same As THE BATMAN?

New photos from the set of Clayface have revealed a map for the DCU's Gotham City, and it clearly isn't the same one we saw in The Batman three years ago. It does, however, include plenty of Easter Eggs.

By JoshWilding - Sep 02, 2025 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Clayface

Liverpool, England, has been transformed into the DCU's Gotham City for Clayface, and we now have a map showing what this version of Bruce Wayne's home looks like.

There are lots of familiar locations, including the Narrows, Cherry Hill, and Crime Alley. Why the latter has been included on what appears to be a tourist map is hard to say, though it at least warns people to keep away from the area by making them aware of where it is! 

As you can see below, the DCU's version of Gotham is vastly different from the one featured in The Batman. In case it isn't clear, that franchise looks set to remain separate from the DCU and The Brave and the Bold, despite repeated demands from fans that Robert Pattinson's Batman be folded into the same world as Superman

There's still no word on who will play the Dark Knight for DC Studios, or whether we can expect them to appear in Clayface. The movie is being billed as an R-rated horror, but DC Studios' heroes and villains aren't constrained by ratings if Peacemaker is any indication. 

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has admitted that the studio is struggling to figure out a fresh take on Batman, and we'd imagine Matt Reeves' upcoming sequel (and avoiding whatever he's got planned for that) isn't helping matters. 

Clayface will at least give us a better idea of what the DCU's Gotham City will look like. Even if Batman hasn't been cast, there are bound to be some references to the Caped Crusader's corner of this shared world. 

Promoting Superman, Gunn was asked why Clayface was brought into the DCU rather than being an Elseworlds title. "Well, I think it was just we needed DCU content," the Superman director admitted. "Mike Flanagan is somebody who I've been friendly with for a long time, and he wrote me about Clayface. He texted me about it really early on in my DC journey."

"Just being honest, I did not think that was something that was going to happen, but he came in and he pitched the idea and I was like, "Oh s---! That's cool." It's a body horror movie," Gunn teased. "It's a horror movie that, like any cool body horror movie, just happens to be in the DCU. And then he wrote the script, and the script was fantastic. We did not plan to do Clayface."

The cast of Clayface will be led by Tom Rhys Harries, while set photos have confirmed that the movie will also star Eddie Marsan and Max Minghella. The movie is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on September 11, 2026. 

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WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 1:43 PM
I don't know why everyone is obsessed to bring Pattinson's Batman into the DCU. By far one of the most overrated cbms ever made. Emoman isn't Batman.
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 9/2/2025, 2:03 PM
@WalletsClosed - Yeah, for you, Emoman is Superman, right?
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 2:34 PM
@SpiderParker - Cavill wasn't emo. Nice try
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 9/2/2025, 3:15 PM
@WalletsClosed - Right.

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WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 3:30 PM
@SpiderParker - Learn what emo is. Using photoshopped pictures to prove your horrendous point makes you look even worse.

Showing sadness, confusion, distress, and pain is not the same as "emo". He's an alien, grounded in a realistic world. Meanwhile, we have silver age nonsense Corenswet who fits the role yet Gunn wrote him to be a parodish cartoon character and not a grounded, realistic alien who we can relate to
Pimpanzee
Pimpanzee - 9/2/2025, 3:32 PM
@WalletsClosed - it was the first live-action Batman movie to depict him as he is in the best of the comics by a filmmaker who read the comics. You wouldn't know that, because you and Snyder just look at the pictures
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 3:39 PM
@Pimpanzee - It was emo garbage made by a filmmaker who's afraid of the source material. He's not even called Batman once in the entire movie. It did nothing to differentiate itself from the Nolan trilogy. It's lazy, derivative, and ultra boring. The only new thing Reeves tried to do was showcase the detective side of Batman more and he completely and utterly flopped at doing so. The dumbest, weakest, and goofiest Batman of the 2000s. Affleck and Bale clowns on him. Two actual Batmen.
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 9/2/2025, 3:59 PM
@WalletsClosed - "Showing sadness, confusion, distress, and pain is not the same as "emo"."

Yet somehow that's different from Pattinson's Batman, huh? Must be cool to have the world run by your rules only when it's convenient. Too bad it doesn't, though.

But I'll entertain you, so why don't you tell me what emo is and how it applies to Pattinson yet doesn't apply to Cavill? I'm sure you'll have trouble coming up with anything now that you've put yourself into a corner, but let me remind you: sadness, confusion, distress, and pain are not the same as emo.
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 4:24 PM
@SpiderParker - Affleck and Nolan shows each of those and yet they're not emo. Pattinson is an emo freak that listens to Nirvana while he pummels people's face in. He's also terribly written and is horrible as both Bruce and Batman.

It doesn't apply to Cavill because Cavill acts like an actual human and not a cartoon caricature. He shows a multitude of emotions throughout the trilogy. Pattinson is grimdark parody.
PopBye
PopBye - 9/2/2025, 4:26 PM
@WalletsClosed - keep sucking that bullshit man of steel movie
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 5:05 PM
@PopBye - Supershit will age poorly
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 9/2/2025, 5:12 PM
@WalletsClosed - 100% agreed. Weird. Twice in the same week.
SpiderParker
SpiderParker - 9/2/2025, 5:14 PM
@WalletsClosed - So, Cavill shows a multitude of emotions throughout the trilogy. You mean to say he is emotionally sensitive and shows angst as well, as part of the multitude of emotions. And that's not emo?

Meanwhile Pattinson is emo cause he listens to Nirvana and beats the criminals as he is supposed to do as other Batmen before him have done so? I don't think you know the meaning of emo.

But that was evident when you prefer emo garbage like MOS, a movie made for teenagers, than be confident in yourself and like movies with both dark and bright notions of their respective storytelling. News Flash: you are quite emo yourself.
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/2/2025, 6:31 PM
@lazlodaytona - I'm more reasonable than you think
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/2/2025, 6:36 PM
@WalletsClosed - Nirvana is Grunge.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/2/2025, 6:36 PM
(way cooler than Emo)
DocSpock
DocSpock - 9/2/2025, 1:49 PM

Blah blah blah.

No Batman.

Blah blah blah..... ZZZZZzzzzzzzz.......

WruceBayne
WruceBayne - 9/2/2025, 1:51 PM
It’s been said time and time again that these are two different universes at the moment with no overlap. And at the moment, there’s no live action DCU Batman(he only appeared in animated form), there’s only the Reeves Universe Batman.
Those are the only facts we have. Until Gunn says “We’re merging the the two…”, we have to accept what it is and that’s two totally different universes.
MuadDib
MuadDib - 9/2/2025, 1:58 PM
Good, keep this grounded emo Batman away from the DCU, as far away as possible.

The DCU Batman won’t be grounded and should be vastly different than any other Batman we’ve seen in live action, should be the definitive version.. one that closely resembles BTAS and JLU
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/2/2025, 6:38 PM
@MuadDib - BTAS had a lot of seriously grounded episodes.
MMFRESHSW2
MMFRESHSW2 - 9/2/2025, 2:02 PM
who cares
TheJok3r
TheJok3r - 9/2/2025, 2:59 PM
How on earth do people expect Reeves' realistic world to be set in the same universe that has a flying dog, an army of typing monkey trolls, and a Kaiju ?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/2/2025, 6:39 PM
@TheJok3r - Same way the comics is?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/2/2025, 3:01 PM
Even if Gunn & Reeves want to keep the universes seperate , the internet will force them to merge them sigh…

Anyway , it looks like this Wayne Manor is in the outskirts of Gotham which I dig since it feels very DCAU imo!!.

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dragon316
dragon316 - 9/2/2025, 3:09 PM
Map means nothing
MisterBones
MisterBones - 9/2/2025, 5:07 PM
They’re not connecting it. People need to accept this
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/2/2025, 6:13 PM
@MisterBones - and I'm glad. Reeves' Gotham felt like a city that could exist on our world, whereas Gunn's Metropolis very clearly is an alternate version. Same with Blue Beetle before it. I can see why Gunn would keep that. Gotham should be no different
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/2/2025, 6:12 PM
That's the classic Gotham map alright.

And I think it's good we get a project that isn't Batman that features Gotham. That way we can get used to it before Batman shows up and it being different from the Reeverse.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/2/2025, 6:40 PM
The Justice League were in Peacemaker Season 1. This isn't a problem. Battinson can still be the DCU Batman.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 9/2/2025, 6:49 PM
Also I kinda doubt that this map is even canon.
"Crime Alley"?! smh... even if they used the actual name of Park Row it's not an alley that needs pinpointing at all.

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