DC goes into horror territory for Clayface. This one looks intriguing. Can they genuinely pull off something different? The full trailer just dropped.
After having been brutally disfigured, a rising movie star named Matt Hagen volunteers as a test subject to restore his original face but experiences a series of horrifying side-effects that transforms his body into living clay.
In January 2021, filmmaker Mike Flanagan publicly expressed interest in making a standalone film focused on the DC Comics character. He was a fan of the character’s portrayal in the Batman: The Animated Series two-part episode Feat of Clay.
In March 2023, Flanagan and his Intrepid Pictures partner Trevor Macy met with Gunn and Safran to pitch a Clayface film in which the character would not be portrayed as a villain like he is in the comics. At that time, the character was expected to appear in Reeves’s The Batman: Part II but Flanagan did not pitch his project as being connected to Reeves’s films.
Now, Clayface is officially part of Chapter One of the new DCU, and will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures October 23, 2026.
