Clayface Set Images Reveal Robin In James Gunn’s DCU

The upcoming Batman horror film, Clayface, reveals Robin in James Gunn’s DC Universe franchise. The DCU’s Chapter 1: “Gods and Monsters” slate is rebooting the Darkish Knight and the numerous characters from his canon for DC Studios’ new superhero universe, together with a few of Bruce Wayne’s most iconic villains.

Principal images is at present underway on the Clayface film, from director James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, a.ok.a. the titular shape-shifting foe. However because of quite a few set pictures and movies, different key gamers from Gotham Metropolis have already been teased to exist on this franchise.

As filming carries on, extra Easter eggs are being revealed from manufacturing, with one other main Batman character having now been confirmed for Gunn’s superhero universe. A brand new set photograph from @Chimichangaprod (by way of @DCUPrimeTV) reveals the primary have a look at Dick Grayson in DC Studios’ continuity, pulling straight from the Boy Marvel’s comedian canon.

Click on right here to see the Dick Grayson/Robin set photograph from Clayface.

The picture facilities on a poster selling the Flying Graysons, a well-known group of trapeze artists that additionally occurs to be Dick’s household, who work for Haly’s Circus. A earlier reference to Robin within the franchise got here via the animated Creature Commandos TV present, the place considered one of them — more than likely Damian Wayne — is seen in Circe’s imaginative and prescient impaled on spikes alongside different DC heroes.

What The Robin Set Photograph Means

Regardless that there was no point out of the long-lasting sidekick displaying up in Watkins’ entry, this does assist flesh out the bigger DCU timeline by establishing a number of the key gamers in Gotham Metropolis. Nevertheless, a possible concept about why a Flying Graysons poster is featured is that Clayface takes place up to now, previous to Dick dropping his household.

What complicates the matter is that there are already particulars on The Joker within the DCU, in addition to Clayface set pictures that includes The Penguin, establishing that Oswald Cobblepot is already lively on this timeline. Each counsel that this film takes place within the current, as it’s unlikely that two main villains like these would already be working when Dick was nonetheless a part of the Flying Graysons.

If something, this might merely be an outdated poster of the group nonetheless hanging round from years in the past, since Damian Wayne is about to be the Robin that the franchise focuses on when he’s launched in The Courageous and the Daring film. At this level, Dick is more than likely already Nightwing, since Andy Muschietti’s installment may also embrace varied Bat-Members of the family.

Our Take On The Robin Set Photograph

As DC Studios brings the Caped Crusader’s beloved mythology into Gunn’s reboot, it is nice to get references to a number of the different heroes within the Bat-Household, particularly as there have been lots of teases of villains via earlier set pictures. It additionally helps construct pleasure for when the DCU timeline finally does function Dick in a film or TV present.

It isn’t unattainable that future tasks with Dick may present flashbacks of the evening he misplaced his household, whereas additionally specializing in him as Nightwing within the current time. As Clayface continues with filming, maybe different members of the Bat-Household might be teased in extra set pictures.

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