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DC Studios has released the official trailer for Clayface, its stand-alone Batman villain movie starring Tom Rhys Harries.
The reveal comes ahead of this week’s Comic-Con, where the James Watkins-directed pic is expected to show off more of its wares. It will be released in theaters by Warner Bros on October 23.
The film falls between DC Studios’ two Matt Reeves-helmed Batman movies — 2022’s The Batman and 2028’s The Batman Part II, both starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader. It comes after the successful launch of the HBO Max series The Penguin, set in the same universe.
DC has been priming the pump on Clayface since CinemaCon, where it showed attendees the first look at Harries’ baddie. In this twist on DC mythology, Clayface (real name: Matt Hagen) is a struggling actor whose face is disfigured. In the hospital, he is attacked and has unknown chemicals pumped into him, giving him his powers to shapeshift.
Per DC, the film “unravels one man's horrifying descent from rising Hollywood star to revenge-filled monster in a story that explores the loss of one's identity and humanity, corrosive love, and the dark underbelly of scientific ambition.”
Naomi Ackie stars alongside Harries, David Dencik, Max Minghella and Eddie Marsan. Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini penned the script for the 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.
Watch the trailer above.
