Clayface has his face.

Rhys Harries will play the horrifically mutable Batman villain, in a script from modern western horror maestro Mike Flanagan. You know Flanagan for his Stephen King work but honestly, go check out Oculus which he made with Karen Gillan and future Nightwing Brenton Thwaites, it’s incredibly good.

Flanagan has been tight-lipped about just what version of the eight (!) we’re getting but he did confirm that his original script was heavily inspired by ‘Feet of Clay’, the classic two part story from Batman: The Animated Series. That used Matt Hagen, the second Clayface but gave him an origin drawn from the original, Basil Karlo. A B-list actor injured in a car accident, Karlo was given the ability to change his face by a cosmetic called Renuyu. Karlo has been onscreen recently too, as the villain in the excellent Caped Crusader episode ‘…To Be A Villain.’

As for the man under the clay, Tom Rhys Harries is going to be a familiar face for a lot of folks, as well as a familiar voice. He’s just voiced Prince Lucas in the Netflix show Wolf King, and had roles in the excellent Big Mood and Britannia. On the big screen he’s been part of underrated Gerard Butler action movie Kandahar and rated about right Guy Ritchie movie The Gentlemen.

But the role most folks will know him for is Ricky September in Doctor Who episode ‘Dot and Bubble’. A deceptively simple character at first, Ricky is a vital part of one of the best episodes of modern Doctor Who and Rhys Harries is superb in the role.

Behind the camera, the movie is being directed by James Watkins who did the near impossible recently with the excellent, and terrifying, remake of Scandi-horror Speak No Evil.

The current plan is that Supergirl will release June 26 2026 and Clayface will follow on 11 September of the same year. Superman releases 11 July this year.

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