Tom Rhys Harries cast as ‘Clayface’ movie lead for DC Studios

There is a new face that enters the DC universe live.

Tuesday, it was announced that the newcomer to Tom Rhys Harries marked the title role in the next Clay DC Studios film. James Gunn, who directs DC Studios with Peter Safran, shared the news with his 1.7 million followers on X, writing: “After a long and incredibly exhaustive search, we finally have our DCU Clayface in Tom Rhys Harries.”

“Matt Reeves and I was blown away by this guy, and I can’t wait for this film to you,” added Gunn.

Reeves, who directed Robert Pattinson from 2022 BatmanProduce the film that will be directed by James Watkin and written by horror maestro Mike Flanagan. The film follows a B-Film actor who drinks a substance supposed to help his career and leaves him instead entirely in clay.

Alan Tudyk currently expresses the character in a more comical capacity for animation Harley Quinn series. Reeves also used a character with a familiar name, Eve Karlo, played by Carmen Ejogo, in his HBO series The penguin.

Harries is a Welsh actor in the making who has appeared on the Apple television series Suspicion Alongside Uma Thurman, and films such as Uberto Pasolini The returnThe title of action Gerard Butler Kandahar, And Guy Ritchie The gentleman.

According to the deadline, Harries beat a star list of British actors for the Clay role, including 28 years later‘S Jack O’Connell, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes‘Tom Blyth, The white lotus‘Leo Woodall, and 1917‘S George Mackay.

Flanagan has been making a bit to write a story of Clayface for years. He previously mentioned the desire in 2021 in a tweet deleted since, in which he wrote that he would tackle such a film as a “horror / thriller / tragedy”. While appearing on the Separate script Podcast in 2023, the filmmaker said that he had met producer Jon Berg for a general meeting in DC studios and expressed his interest in taking the character’s “horror”.

When Gunn announced that Flanagan wrote a film based on the bad classic Batman in December 2024, he confirmed that Clayface will be “a story DCU”, which means that the characters will exist in the same universe as Creature commandos,, Superman And Peacemaker Season 2, and similar.

It will be interesting to see how Clayface is part of the same universe as the first list of films and programs of DC Studios, all wrapped together as a phase 1 of the new DC universe, nicknamed “gods and monsters”. The titles include a supergirl movie, a series of BatmanA Wonderful woman-Mbo Max HBOs based, and many others.

The most important release of phase 1 could be Gunn’s next Superman Film, which sees David Corenswet making his beginnings as a titular hero.

The film sees Superman de Corenswet embarking on a trip to reconcile his Kyrptonian heritage with his human education. Gunn has already said Weekly entertainment that the film is an original story, although it has sought to grant Morrison and Frank Quily All-Star Superman for inspiration. The film will also center Superman’s relationship with the girlfriend Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan).

“We have robots and monster babies and a Kaiju giant and all that,” said Gunn. “But this is also based on these incredibly real relationships with a couple who started to go out together a few months ago, and now they really learn the ins and outs.”

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Gunn has also teased that the idea of ​​a larger superhero team to justice League is in his mind. “Of course, of course,” he told EW. “But there is no League justice in this world … Not yet.”

When asked if his justice plans League are linked to his broader vision for the phase of the gods and monsters, he replied with playfulness: “Of course”.

In the world of SupermanThere is certainly the presence of justice Gangwhich is a trio of superheroes supported by Maxwell Lord (Sean Gunn) of the technological company Lordtech. The team is made up of the winged warrior and eating mass Hawkgirl / Kendra Saunders (Isabela Merced); A green lantern with cut sport, named Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion); And Monsieur Pretrier (Edi Gathegi), whose intellect at the engineering has led to the creation of his mechanical floating orbs which respond to his vocal orders for a variety of effects.

Unlike, let’s say, a justice league, the gang of justice is “good” but “not saint”, explained Gunn.

EW also discussed the subject of justice League with Corenswet in a separate conversation, citing Gunn’s responses.

“I mean, it sounds great,” he replied. “I do not take it upon myself to think in advance in this genre, just because we would hate to get his hopes of something in particular, then make him go in another direction. What I like to do is stay perfectly ignorant, and then when James tells me what will happen. I’m going to tell myself the back of my mind and that we will see.”

Superman flies in theaters on July 11.