Tom Rhys Harries Cast As DC Universe’s Clayface
He changed his name to Clayface when he reached 50,000 ppm of clay
It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie little dab of facey creamy, that he wore the first time today. DC Studios’s Clayface has found its lead, and while we don’t know which Clayface we’re getting, we know he’ll be played by Tom Rhys Harries. Clayface comes before Pariah.
The film is set in the new DC Universe, and is set for release on September 11, 2026. It is known that Harries beat out Sinners’s Jack O’Connell, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Tom Blyth, The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall and 1917’s George MacKay. Studio co-CEO James Gunn posted to his socials “After a long and incredibly exhaustive search, we finally have our DCU Clayface in Tom Rhys Harries. Both Matt Reeves and I were just blown away by this guy, and can't wait for you to see this film.” He then went on to credit the film’s director, Speak No Evil’s James Watkins, and its writer, Mike Flanagan, who is in the midst of being involved in two Stephen King adaptations, just releasing his latest film The Life of Chuck, and beginning production on his Carrie series for Amazon Prime Video. His busy schedule meant Drive writer Hossein Amini came in for rewrites. Gunn later assured on Threads “It's all Mike's story. That's WHY we're making this movie, because we loved it. Any changes as the shooting script is finalized are minor. I'm a Flanafan myself.”
Hossein Amini To Do Rewrites On DC Studios’s 'Clayface'
Mister Actor, you could have clayed her, or something. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Hossein Amini has been brought in for the next draft of DC Studios’s Clayface, after horror maestro Mike Flanagan wrote the original. There are reportedly five months before production commences in October in the United Kingdom.
Harries is known for roles in Suspicion, Unforgotten and White Lines, as well as films like The Return with Ralph Fiennes, but to the more online public, he’s best known for guest starring on long-running sci-fi series Doctor Who, as Finetime social superstar Ricky September in the episode “Dot and Bubble” from last year’s first season internationally on Disney+. Justice for Ricky September. Harries’s iteration of Clayface is currently being voiced by Alan Tudyk in Creature Commandos, which as of the end of the first season has not been identified. It’s possible that further appearances in the second season will drive it toward the film’s vision, especially now with Harries in mind. Until we get confirmation on what character we’re getting it’s good to cover all bases.
Clayface was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, and introduced in Detective Comics #40 from June 1940, making him one of Batman’s earliest foes. This initial version, Basil Karlo, was a washed-up actor who begins committing crimes wearing the claylike mask of one of his former characters. The villain’s well-known shapeshifting abilities were first introduced in 1961. An incarnation who might be equally known is Matt Hagen, thanks to his DCAU iteration incorporating elements of Karlo. Debuting in Detective Comics #298 as a treasure hunter who gains shapeshifting abilities from a radioactive pool of protoplasm, his Batman: The Animated Series iteration voiced by Ron Perlman is an actor who was previously disfigured in an accident. He acquires a beauty cream from a corrupt businessman that restores his face and enables him to change it to that of another person. However he quickly finds himself dependent due to its temporary nature. Further Hagen iterations appear in Young Justice and Teen Titans Go! Further Karlo iterations include Fox’s Gotham, where Brian McManamon played a Karlo revived by Hugo Strange and Ethel Peabody using octopus DNA that ultimately enabled the transformations. Television has introduced original iterations as well, including Ethan Bennett from The Batman who was Ellen Yin’s original police partner mutated by Joker Putty (he gets better, even helping to handle Karlo), and Pennyworth’s enhanced being who poses as high-ranking CIA official Virginia Devereaux. Portrayed by Lorraine Burroughs, she travels with Patrick Wayne to England. Tudyk also voices the iteration on Harley Quinn and its spinoff, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, a classically trained yet terrible actor who gained his abilities from a "terrible pottery accident”.
Gunn is also being cryptic as to whether Tudyk are even the same character, while reiterating that the same across all mediums was for primary characters wherever possible, which Clayface was not when Tudyk was cast. He said “I've also never said if the two characters are the same. (I've also never said they're not).”
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