24-02-2025
Alan Tudyk Won't Play Clayface in Live-Action Film — Plus, the Latest on Booster Gold and 8 Other TV Series
More than two years after revealing their initial plans for the TV series that will help populate their new DC Universe, DC Studios CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran met with the press to offer some candid updates on what's still moving forward, what has been slowed by a 'bumpy road,' and what is brand-new to the mix.
It was also confirmed that although Alan Tudyk winningly voices Clayface on both Harley Quinn and Creature Commandos, and one objective of the new DCU is to have voice actors on animated series also play the live-action version in film, Tudyk will not be leading the recently announced Clayface movie penned by Mike Flanagan. Per Variety, Gunn said that Tudyk won't make the leap to the big screen since Clayface wasn't a 'primary role' for the multi-talented actor.
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As for previously announced and new DC TV projects:
🦸🏽♀️ Waller, the Peacemaker/Suicide Squad spinoff starring Viola Davis, 'has been a bumpy road' and has yet to land the right script, per THR.
🦸♂️ The live-action Booster Gold series had been waiting on a showrunner who'd expressed some interest, but… 'maybe he fell out of love, maybe he got busy,' and 'we had to pivot,' Safran said per THR. But it is still in development.
🦸🏻♀️ Paradise Lost, which Safran (per Deadline) described as a 'Games of Thrones-ish story about Themyscira, the home of the Amazons and the birthplace of Wonder Woman,' is still in the works.
🦸♂️ Any second season of The Penguin is very TBD (Colin Farrell just told Variety, 'I'm in no rush. I have no deep desire to do it'), while the live-action Lanterns is on track for a 2026 release date.
🦸🏻 A Blue Beetle animated series, which follows the events of the 2023 live-action movie, is on track for a greenlight 'really soon,' per Deadline.
🦸♂️ DC has greenlit three 'younger-skewing' animated series, detailed by Variety: My Adventures With Green Lantern, which follows a high school student whose life is upended when 'a Green Lantern Power Ring falls from the sky' and chooses her 'to be its champion'; DC Super Powers, set at Alliance School for Heroes and following students Lightning, Flash, Plastic Man, Aquagirl, Green Lantern and Terra; and Starfire, an origin story for eponymous future Teen Titans member.
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