“We meet Matt at an actual turning level in his profession after which, in a short time, at an actual turning level in his life,” Harries defined. “It’s a horror, nevertheless it’s a thriller. It asks, How far would you go to reclaim your life that you just’ve constructed?”
That description doesn’t match the character we noticed in Creature Commandos. In that present, Clayface acts like a typical bro, as he hits on feminine college students whereas within the type of Professor MacPherson and spends his evenings trash-talking on-line online game opponents whereas consuming junk meals. Hardly the three-dimensional determine that the film appears to showcase.
Comedian followers know that Hagen is simply the second individual to make use of the title Clayface, a felony treasure hunter whose physique remodeled after being uncovered to a mysterious ooze. Different Clayfaces embrace scientist Preston Payne, who injected himself with Hagen’s blood to treatment a uncommon illness, Sondra Fuller aka Girl Clay, Payne and Fuller’s son Cassius, and the ill-fated legislation enforcement officer Peter Malley.
Regardless that Clayface director James Watkins admits his model of Hagen is “an amalgam”—”We’ve pinched components from in every single place,” he defined—one nonetheless has to marvel: Why not simply choose a unique model of the character to function within the film? That means, they may keep away from the confusion with Creature Commandos.
Neither Safran nor Flanagan nor Watkins has a solution, nevertheless it doesn’t actually matter. Not solely is Clayface a mutable character, however all of superhero comics can change to satisfy the second. Inside simply the world of Batman comics, typically the tales are gritty and hard-edged and typically they’re goofy and over-the-top. Generally, they make the villains into sympathetic monsters, and typically Batman fights remorseless people. A few of Batman’s adventures are made for younger readers, and typically he’s adults-only.
A part of the explanation we nonetheless care about Batman, virtually ninety years after he debuted, is as a result of he can change to suit into any form of story. Whereas the DCU definitely needs to observe the MCU’s mannequin and convey a shared universe to the massive display, it has to observe the comics’ lead and settle for that Superman might act a method in his personal tales and be totally different when enjoying a supporting function in a unique story.