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DC Studios has released nan charismatic trailer for Clayface, its stand-alone Batman villain movie starring Tom Rhys Harries.
The uncover comes up of this week’s Comic-Con, wherever nan James Watkins-directed pic is expected to show disconnected much of its wares. It will beryllium released successful theaters by Warner Bros connected October 23.
The movie falls betwixt DC Studios’ 2 Matt Reeves-helmed Batman movies — 2022’s The Batman and 2028’s The Batman Part II, some starring Robert Pattinson arsenic nan Caped Crusader. It comes aft nan successful motorboat of nan HBO Max bid The Penguin, group successful nan aforesaid universe.
DC has been priming nan pump connected Clayface since CinemaCon, wherever it showed attendees nan first look astatine Harries’ baddie. In this twist connected DC mythology, Clayface (real name: Matt Hagen) is simply a struggling character whose look is disfigured. In nan hospital, he is attacked and has chartless chemicals pumped into him, giving him his powers to shapeshift.
Per DC, nan movie “unravels 1 man’s horrifying descent from rising Hollywood prima to revenge-filled monster successful a communicative that explores nan nonaccomplishment of one’s personality and humanity, corrosive love, and nan acheronian underbelly of technological ambition.”
Naomi Ackie stars alongside Harries, David Dencik, Max Minghella and Eddie Marsan. Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini penned nan book for nan pic, produced by Reeves, Lynn Harris, and DC Studios’ James Gunn and Safran. Executive producers are Michael E. Uslan, Chantal Nong Vo, Lars P. Winther, Rafi Crohn, and Paul Richie.
