James Gunn has an answer to the question of “who tf asked for a Clayface movie,” posed by a commenter on the DC Studios head’s Threads account earlier this week.
\n\n“Who tf asked for Back to the Future? Casablanca? There’s Something About Mary? Pan’s Labyrinth? Fury Road? Weapons? The Matrix?” Gunn fired back on the platform. (The user’s original comment has since been deleted.) “Although it may seem like it, Hollywood isn’t a place where the only way to make a movie is the public voting on what IP they want to see that they’ve seen countless times before.”
\n\nHe posted again: “Sometimes someone — in this case initially Mike Flanagan and then James Watkins and Hossein Amini — were inspired by a relatively little-known fictional character and crafted what I believe is a very special story around that character. I’d take that inspiration a thousand times over some writer trying to make a buck by writing a listless screenplay about a majorly popular character he or she has no passion or feel for.”
\n\nDespite the fact that Clayface is a considerably nicher choice for a feature film compared to past DC movies like “Supergirl” and “Superman,” most fans have…
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