Warner Bros. Releases First Trailer for Clayface Movie, Teasing the DCU's First Body Horror Movie

Warner Bros. has released the archetypal trailer for manager James Watkins' Clayface, giving fans their archetypal sensation of the upcoming DCU movie. Clayface stars Tom Rhys Harries arsenic the titular quality and Naomi Ackie arsenic Dr. Caitlyn Corr.

Check retired the caller trailer embedded below:

As the trailer makes plain, this is simply a decidedly darker displacement for the DCU, whose archetypal fewer projects person included James Gunn's Superman, Peacemaker Season 2, and the animated bid Creature Commandos. As promised, there's a distinctly assemblage horror-flavored vibe to this one.

While airy connected plot, the trailer shows america images of Harries' Matt Hagen, an up-and-coming histrion whose vocation is chopped abbreviated erstwhile a mobster horrifically scars his face. Hagen turns to Corr and her experimental process that restores, lone to find it comes astatine a dense cost. As Hagen transforms into a clay-like monster, he'll acceptable retired to punish those who wronged him. The movie seems to gully arsenic overmuch inspiration from Batman: The Animated Series arsenic it does the classical Batman comics.

The formed of Clayface besides includes Max Minghella, Eddie Marsan, and David Dencik. The movie volition deed theaters connected October 23, 2026.

Naturally, we person a batch of burning questions surrounding Clayface, not the slightest of which being whether we'll spot Batman successful this Gotham City-based movie. Can it win wherever Sony's Spider-Man-less Marvel movies person mostly failed? We'll find retired aboriginal this year.

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