Attendees of CinemaCon got to see the world premiere of the teaser for DC Studios’ Clayface last weekend. That period of exclusivity is now up, and the video has been posted online for all to be disgusted by.
The one-minute teaser is just a shot of aspiring actor Matt Hagen post-accident. bandaged up and hooked up to hospital equipment. His face looks like a cherry pie right now, but we all know that mug will look way worse once the bandages come off. The teaser uses the wet “whampf” sound increasingly popular in horror trailers to make transition cuts, and it’s most effective here considering the guy we’re focusing on. They want you to know this is gonna be gross!
Tom Rhys Harries is playing the character, who is different from Basil Karlo, the original comic book Clayface. “After a long and incredibly exhaustive search, we finally have our DCU Clayface in Tom Rhys Harries,” DC Studios head James Gunn announced last June. “Both [producer] Matt Reeves and I were just blown away by this guy, and can’t wait for you to see this film, directed by James Watkins and written by Mike Flanagan.”
Clayface made his first appearance in 1940, one yest after Batman himself. Most interpretations of him have used the same back story: he’s a struggling actor who gets doused one day with this chemical that changes his DNA (which tends to happen a lot in Gotham), and he can now look like anybody or anything, though his “default” body is now a morphous brown blob. With this new power, he turns to crime, figuring no one can stop him, and forgetting he lives in the same neighborhood as the World’s Greatest Detective.
We’ve technically already seen Clayface in the Gunnverse; he appeared in one episode of Creature Commandos, an animated series Gunn scripted himself and says is canon. He was not played by Harries on that show, though.
DC Studios’ Clayface will be released October 23 in theaters.




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