DC Studios Lancia Tom Rhys Harries as the main character in Clayface’s movie

After weeks of speculation and a list of high -profile contenders, the main role in the DC studios Clay It was officially chosen.

While names like Jack O’Connell, Tom Blyth, Leo WoodallAND George Mackay According to reports, they were co-heads in the race, DC Studios James Gunn confirmed that the Welsh actor Tom Rhys Harries The tragic bad guy will play in the next film after he was reported by Deadline.

Second The casing‘S Umberto Gonzalez, Harries is destined to portray the Incarnation Matt Hagen of Clayface, a character rooted in the DC Comics tradition as an adventurer transformed into a monster after a meeting with a protoplasm radioactive pool.

However, it is not clear how the film will found the comic continuity with the most recognizable origin of the character from Batman: the animated seriesWhere Hagen was an actor who became a horror that moved the shape after being exposed to a toxic facial cream invented by Roland Daggett.

Flanagan previously opened on the DC project and confirmed that his version of Clay was strongly inspired by the acclaimed two parts Batman: the animated series “Feat of clay” episode.

When asked if his script was inspired by it, Flanagan said: “Of course it was. I want to say it is the perfect [story]. “Feat of Clay”, Ron Perlman, for me, that’s all. That two sides put me out of combat. The short answer is that it is absolutely what inspired my script.

“This is the world in which I wanted to live. Batman: the animated series when I was growing was my Batman. [Michael] Keaton was my Batman, the animated series was really my Batman. “

Harries may not be a family name, but his past credits include Apple TV+ Suspected, The gentlemenand the action thriller Kandahar. Graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Harries made his debut at the West End in Jez Butterworth’s Mojosharing the stage with Colin Morgan, Rupert GrintAND Well whishaw.

James Gunn and Peter Safran are producing the film together The Batman director Matt Reeves. Clayface is guided by Do not see evil director James Watkins. The first draft of the script was written by the horror mind Mike Flanagan (Chuck’s life), before being delivered to guide the writer Hossein Amini for the rewritten.

So what kind of clay are we getting here? Gunn had previously said: “One of the things that Peter and I talked about when we got the script is if you have been producing films five years ago, as when we were doing Belko experiment and all that stuff, and someone had brought this horror screenplay called Clayface to this boy, we would have died of having produced this film.

“Because it was just a really excellent horror script of the body. And the fact that it is in the DCU is just an advantage. So we have Clayface: also [frick]horror. As totally real. Their version of that film is so real, true, psychological and horror of the body. It is definitely ra-fallen. “

Clay He will melt in cinemas on 11 September 2026.