Overview

• Veteran horror writer Mike Flanagan provided the screenplay for the shapeshifting villain’s origin story.
• James Watkins, known for Speak No Evil and The Woman in Black, is poised to helm the standalone DCU entry.
• Tom Rhys Harries will star as Matt Hagen, a B-movie actor who transforms into the monstrous Clayface.
• The film will stand apart from Matt Reeves’ grounded Batman continuity under Gunn and Safran’s tone-driven universe segmentation.
• Clayface is set to premiere in theaters on September 11, 2026, as the DCU’s first R-rated feature.