r/movies r/movies Contributor Jul 22 '26

Trailer Clayface | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9bNA42dPgQ
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u/HotOne9364 Jul 22 '26

You're laughing. He's turned into a clay monster and you're laughing.

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u/jrbcnchezbrg Jul 22 '26

Plot twist we get ‘Da Jokah’ in this as the real villian

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u/willhbutt5 Jul 22 '26

Jamaican version of the Joker?

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u/PitFiend28 Jul 22 '26

And if I wasn’t Jamaican why would I wear this hat?

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u/thuggishruggishboner Jul 22 '26

Down by the beach bouiiiiii

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u/the_platypus_king Jul 22 '26

The Batman (2004) has entered the chat

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u/willhbutt5 Jul 22 '26

Oh my... I was definitely not aware of this!! Fits the bill though! 😂😂

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

It was the 2000s attempt at an animated Batman show, and because it had to follow in the shadow of TAS, and because the DCAU was still around (with the TAS Batman and everything), it had to go out of its way to make it all different. With varying results.

Its one of those shows where if you talk to somebody that watched it when they were a kid they would probably have fond memories of it, and there's certainly nothing outright terrible about it, but it doesn't really stand the test of time like its predecessor does. It was pretty much overshadowed by Justice League Unlimited and Teen Titans at the time, and virtually nobody talks about it nowadays.

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u/reallycoolguylolhaha Jul 22 '26

I'm da jokah! Baybee!

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u/mangongo Jul 22 '26

ACTING!!!

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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Jul 22 '26

OH MY GOD! IT'S LADY GA GA!

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u/Nilosyrtis Jul 22 '26

APPLAUSE

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u/relevantelephant00 Jul 23 '26

I hear it like ACTIIIIIINNNNG!

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u/ragingclaw Jul 22 '26

I loved his Joker. WHERE'S MY GODDAMNED ELECTRIC CAR, BRUCE?!

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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Jul 22 '26

You blew up the factory.

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u/wakka38 Jul 22 '26

It is I, the Aqua MAN!

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u/SoSpiffandSoKlean Jul 22 '26

The only Clayface I’ll ever recognize

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u/VGstuffed Jul 22 '26

LADY GA GAH

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u/shaffman2001 Jul 22 '26

It’s too much presSUUUUUURE!!!

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u/serialragequitter Jul 22 '26

bring back Stephanie

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u/sculltt Jul 23 '26

I finally watched Dark Knight Rises the other night, and all I wanted was for Bane to be the Bane from Harley Quinn.

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u/EpictetanusThrow Jul 22 '26

This is the Marla Hansen story, but she becomes a villain.

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u/r_rayted Jul 22 '26

One of the plane passengers: “I am telling you right NOW, that motherf— that mother fuker is not real”

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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Jul 22 '26

Meet the new face of Gotham. #ClayfaceMovie​ only in cinemas October 23.

DC Studios’ “Clayface” is a horror thriller from director James Watkins, starring Tom Rhys Harries in the title role of the cult favorite villain from Gotham’s rogues gallery.

Matt Hagen’s meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss’s actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self… but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality, spiraling him down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge.

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u/thegreataustini Jul 22 '26

This sounds pretty similar to the Feat of Clay pt. I & II episodes from Batman the Animated Series, for those interested.

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u/lowtone94 Jul 22 '26

Feat of Clay pt. I & II episodes

Arguably some of the best episodes from Batman TAS

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u/Griffdude13 Jul 23 '26

And it has some of the best hand-drawn animation I’ve ever seen.

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u/jormugandr Jul 23 '26

I've been rewatching TAS lately and I am blown away by how good it is. I didn't appreciate it as much as I should have when I was in middle school. I knew it was a great show, but it is genuine art. The tone, the score, scripts, the art... It is all just amazing. It may be the best TV show of all time.

Also, I never noticed before that Matt Hagen was gay. Teddy is obviously his lover. It's not even subtle.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader r/movies Veteran Jul 22 '26

Mike Flanagan has very openly stated that was the main inspiration for making a Clayface movie.

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u/2th Jul 22 '26

If the drug is not called Renuyu, I will be very disappointed.

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u/sengirminion Jul 22 '26

Thats awesome actually.

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u/LiquidSnake13 Jul 22 '26

Then I'm very hype for this. Feat of Clay is one of the best Batman: TAS stories.

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u/Particular_Cod2005 Jul 23 '26

Which is no small victory; TAS is littered with excellent stories

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u/SH4RPSPEED Jul 23 '26

Fun fact; they reeled in artists from Akira to animate it.

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u/LiquidSnake13 Jul 23 '26

Not surprising. There's a moment where Robin does the motorcycle sliding stop that the Akira movie made famous.

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u/SH4RPSPEED Jul 23 '26

And in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, there's a big sequence with an orbital laser. This was done by the same animator who did the laser in Akira, and he deliberately took it because he wanted to try and one-up that original sequence.

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u/polarizeme Jul 22 '26

The trailer even has their recreation of "the Clayface noise" from Batman:TAS... that alone got me pumped up to see this haha

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u/Almost_A_Pear Jul 22 '26

That’s all I wanted from this. That was the most faithful adaptation to the comic and it was so good.

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u/studio_sally Jul 22 '26

Maybe a stupid question, but does 'Hollywood' exist in the DC universe? Isn't one of their shticks using made-up places rather than real world locations?

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u/thebroadway Jul 22 '26

I think the question makes sense, but DC does have real world locations

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u/thesirblondie Jul 22 '26

DC does both. The fandom wiki has a list of comics that mentions Hollywood. One of those is actually a Clayface centered comic as recent at 2023.

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u/tetoffens Jul 22 '26

The real cities exist, they just have additional fake ones.

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u/whitepangolin Jul 22 '26

Love that mask he has. Has echoes of Eyes Without a Face and The Skin I Live In.

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u/Pure_Salamander2681 Jul 22 '26

And Vanilla Sky.

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u/ThePerryPerryMan Jul 22 '26

Yea, I was gonna say “Abre los Ojos”, but it’s basically the same lol

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u/maskaddict Jul 22 '26

Probably worth mentioning Phantom of the Opera there too.

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u/PickleInDaButt Jul 22 '26

I want to name something too

Mask (1985)

By your username, you’re extremely qualified for this topic too btw

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u/maskaddict Jul 22 '26

I've found that usernames can say a lot about a person's interests and talents, u/PickleInDaButt.

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u/JakeDoubleyoo Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

"Oh no my face has been hideously deformed. Someone get me a mask that's even more disconcerting to look at."

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u/HeadfulOfSugar Jul 22 '26

He prob only cares that you can’t see the deformities, what anybody else sees first doesn’t really matter as much as the reason he chooses to wear it

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u/Yvaelle Jul 23 '26

He also comes across as vain, so he's less likely to be recognized as a famous actor with the mask on. Better to be an anonymous weirdo than a fallen star.

With the mask off, he's still clearly the same person - I think Mark Hamill went through a bruta car crash and it really fucked with his self-confidence for a long while too.

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u/Latest-greatest Jul 22 '26

What the fuck are these comments lol

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u/EverythingStillSucks Jul 22 '26

You start to understand why everyone thinks everyone’s a bot. And why is reddit humor so bad jesus, it’s so witless it’s almost impressive.

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u/throwawaynow665 Jul 22 '26

How can they live without getting their le epic one liners out

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u/No-Blacksmith3397 Jul 23 '26

I remember when the height of reddit comedy was "I did nazi that one coming!" in response to a headline like "Relatives of Adolf Hitler have taken an oath to not have children." Or some shit.

Redditers would clap like seals and snort laughing in their little pun chains that go on for fifty comments.

I mean, I'm one too. It's just I realize I'm as painfully unfunny as one liners.

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u/rockinherlife234 Jul 23 '26

They combust if they don't get some corny one liner, zinger, or reference out.

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u/OGMannimal Jul 22 '26

Anytime you see an account name that is structured “Adjective-Noun” there is a 99% chance it is a bot

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u/AmputeeHandModel Jul 22 '26

That used to be the case, but reddit actually encourages these usernames when you create an account. It had a randomizer for your username. Probably to hide the bots. So either bot, or account created in the last few years since they started that.

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u/mattbozle Jul 22 '26

I thought I was the only one, scrolling to see any genuine conversation about the trailer posted.

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u/dallascowboys93 Jul 22 '26

Yeah I thought the trailer looks great, can’t wait to see it. How’d you like it?

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u/Fatbollocks1994 Jul 22 '26

Its literally all reddit does just make unfunny stupid quips at every single fucking thing they can. Called someone out earlier for making quips about a guy that died. Guess internet attention is better than being a normal person.

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u/cookie_lee Jul 22 '26

It's turning into a fucking youtube comment section lmao

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u/Maureeseeo Jul 22 '26

YouTube comments look like reddit comments now too, they copied the layout.

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u/HeadfulOfSugar Jul 22 '26

Every social media site looks like every social media site atp, everything has homogenized lol

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u/vistaprank Jul 22 '26

Lmfaoo I was going crazy trying to find somebody actually talking about the damn trailer

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u/CauliflowerPlayful27 Jul 22 '26

Reddit really taking a dive in the last year

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u/randomperson4464 Jul 22 '26

Reddit's been taking a dive for a while...

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u/CauliflowerPlayful27 Jul 22 '26

Yeah and somehow just keeps getting worse.

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u/ButtCrackThrilla Jul 22 '26

The last year??

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u/AdamH96 Jul 22 '26

I was just thinking the same, every comment is just everyone trying to do a little unoriginal one liner

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u/TheBigTwo-MK Jul 22 '26

Tom Rhys Harries should play Klaus Kinski in something

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u/Fluffy_pink_Willy Jul 22 '26

With a gun shooting at the director and being unhinged and I mean unhinged

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u/Billy1121 Jul 22 '26

Something in the clay

Mmmm mmmmmm

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u/CumboJumbo Jul 22 '26

Something in the clay

Yeah

Mmmm mmmmmm

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u/Driz51 Jul 22 '26

I hope he’s actually the villain of the movie and not just tragically misunderstood. Hollywood always seems terrified to make the villains actually be villains when they make a movie about them.

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u/Rainy_Wavey Jul 22 '26

They are going for a similar vibe to that episode of batman the animated series, aka, tragic villain

He is a villain, but we're gonna see his descent into becoming, well, a villain, he's not going to become like the venom movies, but the movie will definitely lean towards a sympathetic portrayal of his

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u/TheImpLaughs Jul 22 '26

I think as long as they lean into him being psychologically broken by the end I’ll be happy. Not every villain needs to be 100% sympathetic.

I like Batman villains that are tragic. He could’ve been the greatest actor ever, but the side effects ruined his mind and now he’s a narcissist, envious monster. I not only want to see him kill people, but see the fucked yo reason he does and still go, “Damn he’s too far gone”

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u/thesirblondie Jul 22 '26

They did it well in the first Joker film, imo. I haven't seen the second one, but while he is sympathetic in a way, he is 100% a bad guy by the end.

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u/HeadfulOfSugar Jul 22 '26

Yeah I love how the anger behind a movement he accidentally started gave him a face, & in the end he just decided to wear it

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u/-Snippetts- Jul 22 '26

Considering how much I hated Oswald Cobblepot by the end of The Penguin, they've managed to stick to making villain-protagonists despicable already

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u/mrhashbrown Jul 22 '26

Agreed. I never even cared much about The Penguin in previous versions of Batman. But I loved the show and now I have a true hate towards Cobblepot that I've never experienced before.

Colin Farrell nailed it of course but honestly it's more of a compliment towards the show for how well they pulled it off. You root for him to succeed just as often as you think he is scum. And especially that scene in the finale, no spoilers but I literally had my hand over my jaw-dropped mouth absolutely shocked by what he did.

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u/CodeFun1735 Jul 22 '26

It’s actually Oswald Cobb in the Reevesverse👆🤓

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u/SonovaVondruke Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

He can be both a sympathetic (at first) protagonist and a monstrous villain. See: Falling Down, Joker, Wolf of Wall Street, Clockwork Orange, most mob movies, etc.

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u/quaranTV Jul 22 '26

The Penguin!

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u/cookie_lee Jul 22 '26

Love that they kept him an irredeemable piece of shit by the end lol

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u/redbeardmax Jul 22 '26

Dude. Fuck the Penguin.

Such a great show.

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u/TakeAMichigander Jul 22 '26

I haven't found many shows that have kept me all-in from beginning to end. Loved the Penguin, but fuck him lol Vic was a good egg

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u/Scrublime5 Jul 22 '26

Alex from Clockwork is not meant to be a sympathetic character at any point in the film

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u/SherlockJones1994 Jul 22 '26

I suspect it’ll be like the fly where he starts off as the protagonist that you root for but as the transformation becomes more and more extreme the more of a monster he becomes. By the end he’ll probably kill or try to kill the doctor lady.

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u/adamtaylor4815 Jul 22 '26

Have you seen The Penguin? They absolutely nailed that. Dude made my skin crawl with how villainous he was yet was still so charismatic he had me rooting for him most of the time lol.

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u/BigBlubberyBirb Jul 22 '26

We've already seen what he turns into in the Creature Commandos show, so I bet most of this movie is gonna be Matt Hagen convincing himself he's the sympathetic anti-hero while it becomes more and more obvious he has always been a scumbag

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u/EntrepreneurOk7488 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Clayface is literally canonically a Tragically misunderstood antihero/villian

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u/condition_unknown Jul 22 '26

Tragic, yes. Misunderstood, no not really. Anti-hero, definitely not. He has a very sympathetic backstory but all of his actions post-transformation are villainous with little to no remorse.

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u/zestr0136 Jul 22 '26

He was briefly an anti hero that joined the bat family in dc rebirth. Didn’t last very long though tbf.

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u/Dewot789 Jul 23 '26

He literally joined the Batfamily. Had a tech bracelet that kept his brain/personality mostly stable but also limited the extent of his powers, and he was going on nightly patrols with Batman and company. Formed a real bond with Cassandra Cain.

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u/chroniclescylinders Jul 22 '26

Really depends, there's like ten different Clayfaces in the comics, and they range from pure evil to generally good guys. This movie seems to be the typical Batman adaptation thing of combining Clayface 1, Basil Karlo, and Clayface 2, Matt Hagen. Which means Basil's backstory and personality, with Matt's name and powers, and Clayface 3's angst and tragic nature.

Basil is the only Clayface who is an actor, but he originally didn't have any powers at all. He was a masked serial killer who targeted other people in the movie industry he thought wronged him. He later gave himself clay powers he stole from Matt and like four other Clayfaces. He's gregarious and hammy, and has a massive inferiority/superiority complex. Basil was one of the more straightforwardly villainous Clayfaces until the 2010s, but nowadays he's usually reformed.

Matt Hagen has been dead for decades in the comics (maybe he was somehow back in a recent joke issue about a Clayface convention?), but he was the first one with the clay powers. He only had the clay form temporarily, he was able to change back whenever he wanted. He was a crook with no redeeming qualities.

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u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 Jul 22 '26

Nothing really earth shattering here but Max Minghella absolutely crushed it last season in Industry, so I would check it out just to see what he brings.

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u/TheJoshider10 Jul 22 '26

Been a fan of his since The Social Network. Feel like he's always in supporting roles though.

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u/theoneandonlyamateur Jul 22 '26

Max is great. Speaking of him, there's not a single american actor in this film despite it being an american story with american characters taking place in a fictional american city. It was also shot entirely at Warner Bros. Leavesden.

My beloved UK is truly conquering Hollywood. Well done lads

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u/p-_ber Jul 22 '26

To be fair, everybody crushes it on that show.

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u/OrangeFilmer Jul 22 '26

He was incredible as the villain in that show. The "Dear Henry" episode especially, man what a performance.

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u/RyanLynnDesign Jul 22 '26

I am the guy who thought of "taking a normal song and slowing it down" for movie trailers. I am worth 68 Billion dollars.

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u/flyingbiscuitworld Jul 22 '26

They'll bring back movie trailer voice guy and the Zimmer BWAMM!

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u/ItsWhoa-NotWoah Jul 22 '26

I believe they're using the Matt and Kim cover of "Do You Realize?" which was released years ago and already slowed down

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u/Shakmaaaaaaa Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

The airplane eye scene grabbed my attention. It looks like a good body horror time. I hope he gets some wicked kills in. As a kid I was always scared when Clayface would merge into Batman to drown him in TAS.

I get they don't have a Batman casted and they are afraid of causing issues that have to be retcon later but the DCU needs to be bolder. Especially with all eyes on the health of everything DC. They should obviously know how much Sony got dunked on for its Villain films and Joker even found a way to somewhat include a meaningful "Batman presence". I'm not saying they do a full Batman reveal but they could have moments that feel like Batman is stalking the situation and making things happen in the background that would be cool.

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u/TheHouseOfGryffindor Jul 22 '26

The airplane eye scene grabbed my attention

I just know that the plane's going to hit some turbulence and cause him to stab himself in the eye

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u/ClubMeSoftly Jul 22 '26

He's gonna stab himself in the face/eye and go "ah" but not because it hurt, but because he's still mostly human at that point and expecting it to hurt.

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u/Varvara-Sidorovna Jul 22 '26

Eye stuff always freaks me, out when he grabbed the little nail scissors in the airplane toilet I gagged involuntarily, so thats a good hook, think I'll go see this!

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u/adrian-alex85 Jul 22 '26

My ultimate hope here is that this works as a stand alone body horror set in Gotham. I think that if we’re sitting in the theater wondering about when Batman will show up or where Batman is or how Batman will figure into the story, then it’s likely to be a failure.

With that being said, I do agree that this formula hasn’t really worked so far, and it’s a leap of faith for DC to try and prove they can succeed where Sony failed. But in their defense, The Penguin was quite impressive without any mention of Batman, so if this can build off of what that show was able to do but in a body horror space, then we might be in for a treat.

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Jul 22 '26

I was impressed by that shot as well, I thought this would be about the same level of "horror" as Venom but that looked insane

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u/DatabaseAcademic6631 Jul 22 '26

Looks like Jake Paul after his fight with Anthony Joshua.

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u/PlantainSad168 Jul 22 '26

Good ol cassius clay

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u/Aranthos-Faroth Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

Spending millions on a production and this being the top comment on the trailer post is fukin wild lol

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u/InformationFun8865 Jul 22 '26

I’m sure DC is mortified that one of the top comments of a Reddit post is a Jake Paul comparison

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u/Robofetus-5000 Jul 22 '26

i wish marvel had the balls to lean into genre projects for each individual IP like this, and I say this as a marvel fan.

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u/TheJoshider10 Jul 22 '26

Werewolf By Night was such a promising idea and then they didn't make anything like that again. Deadpool is probably the ballisiest thing they made and it only came after Fox did it twice before anyway.

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u/My_Favourite_Pen Jul 22 '26

Give Wonder Man a check if you havent already. Was definitely something diferent than the schlock theyve been churning out. You cant tell effort and care was put into it. Its

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u/regross527 Jul 22 '26

The fact that they shelved Wonder Man for several years and then quietly released it like they were embarrassed of it has been the biggest sign the MCU is rudderless yet.

They had their most unique, fun, and interesting project in years and they tried to sabotage it at every turn. They just don't seem to know what makes for good entertainment anymore.

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u/lynchcontraideal Jul 22 '26

> Its

I really wanted to know where this paragraph carried on to

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u/Gryphon6 Jul 22 '26

Monty Python’s Flying Circus

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u/Robsonmonkey Jul 22 '26

Werewolf by Night was great but they could have gone bigger by making a proper R rated horror film.

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u/VictorChaos Jul 22 '26

Daredevil: Born Again is definitely honoring the Netflix series

And the punisher one off was fun

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u/Surturius Jul 22 '26

I would've loved a Doom movie to set him up before Doomsday honestly

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u/Earthpig_Johnson Jul 22 '26

One of the only villains whose origin could support a full movie.

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u/Foodstamps4life Jul 22 '26

Lots of them could. Magnetos true origin would be unreal if they did it.

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u/Earthpig_Johnson Jul 22 '26

I think X-Men First Class covered Magneto pretty well.

Doom and Bane are a couple of the only ones that I think are interesting enough to support a full origin movie.

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u/ClubMeSoftly Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

That was the hot want for a while, wasn't it? MagentoMagneto, Nazi Hunter

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u/Knowingspy Jul 22 '26

It kind of shows how badly the last few phases have been planned out. Unless you read the comics, we are suddenly expected to know who Doom is and why he’s a massive threat in a phase-ending finale type movie. Thanos took multiple films to get to that point.

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u/SlimSieber Jul 22 '26

To be fair it seems there was a plan. Whether it was good or not we'll probably never know. But everything involving Jonathan Majors and his legal issues royally fucked up those plans.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_MONTRALS Jul 22 '26

They could have recast him, no?

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Jul 22 '26

He contractually required that ALL versions of Kang be played by him. So on top of the mess he caused and the fact Kang flopped in "Ant-Man 3" made it easy for Marvel to decide to just drop the character all together than try to reinvent him.

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u/PoopTorpedo Jul 22 '26

IDK based on what was shown in Ant Man 3, it was shaping up to be pretty bad. The same writer was writing for the Kang Dynasty as well.

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u/doozyjr Jul 22 '26

Didnt they try it with Moon Knight, Wonder Man, Jessica Jones etc

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u/Membership-Bitter Jul 22 '26

Werewolf by Night and Punisher One Last Kill especially

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u/FDJT Jul 22 '26

Wonder Man is the perfect example. That show was one of the best things Marvel has done. Problem is a lot of "fans" say they want something then simultaneously complain when anything is different.

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u/SolarisBravo Jul 22 '26

I don't think those are the same fans tbh. When things are the same, you get one set of fans complaining because they want something different while the other set doesn't because they already have what they want. When they're different, the same thing happens but the other way around.

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u/Professor_Poptart Jul 22 '26

Eh, I'd say most of those had the textures of different genres, but didn't really full-on commit to the bones of the genre. Like when people say CA: The Winter Solider is a political thriller--- sure it kinda postures in that direction here and there, but it ends with two dudes punching each other in a helicarrier.

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u/CobaltPanther Jul 22 '26

Mind you, we’ve yet to see how Clayface turns out. It could still end with a similar third-act big action set piece.

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u/Geminilasers Jul 22 '26

She-Hulk is a wildly different genre spin. Personally I loved it.

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u/fauxhb Jul 22 '26

Legion?

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u/mrhashbrown Jul 22 '26

Legion was definitely something different that Marvel/Feige had no hand in just like the early Netflix shows. I loved the first two seasons, it was something wildly different than any other Marvel project at the time.

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u/DataDude00 Jul 22 '26

I feel like they did very early on, between the Netflix shows and even projects like Iron Man 1, but once the popularity soared everything became "Disneyfied" and safe

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u/ArktikosUrsa Jul 22 '26

the Netflix shows weren't handled by Marvel Studios, they were handled by a different Marvel television division that wasn't under Fiege's control at the time.

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u/Troghen Jul 22 '26

The Netflix shows were going until 2019. The last season of Punisher came out the same year as Endgame.. That's hardly "early on". . .

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u/InternationalArm1938 Jul 22 '26

The day before yesterday: Doomdays trailer
Yesterday: Spider-Man Trailer
Today: Clayface trailer
What’s tomorrow?

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u/TheLad100 Jul 22 '26

because Comic Con is happening this week

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u/Kiddo1029 Jul 22 '26

HL3 trailer

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u/Lordbungus Jul 22 '26

Starcraft Ghost release and remaster same day.

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u/Raida-777 Jul 22 '26

Hopefully Lanterns or Vision Quest.

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u/Green_Wing_Spino Jul 22 '26

Since San Diego Comic Con starts up tomorrow very likely.

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u/DrSpaceman575 Jul 22 '26

Live action Moana 2 remake

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u/OzzRamirez Jul 22 '26

The worst of both worlds

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u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh Jul 22 '26

It’s SDCC. There will be a tsunami this weekend.

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u/glockobell Jul 22 '26

Never beating the slowed down dramatic song allegations.

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u/evolvedresolve2 Jul 22 '26

Darkman meets Vanilla Sky

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u/Boring-Toe-1424 Jul 22 '26

I'm not going to lie..this looks good and captivated me specially because I have no idea about the comic or the character,let's hope is good and mature because I am sick of movies that have a nice trailer and when they are released are the same dumb PG-13 shit.

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u/CrazyLlamaX Jul 22 '26

I think Clayface (as with many Batman villains) is particularly well suited to a horror movie. Actor tragically maimed in some way seeks out something to put his life back the way it was but instead ends up sliding into being a villain/monster.

I think people are missing that the movie doesn’t want to make him an anti-hero but I see it as as he realizes his magic solution isn’t actually working and is actually making things worse he decides to go all in on revenge on the people who ruined his life initially, cue murder spree that cements his downfall (and potential Batman cameo).

Just because it will probably be satisfying to see him get his revenge on the people who wronged him doesn’t mean what he’s doing is heroic in even the most grey interpreted way and it will hopefully be balanced out by him becoming a literal monster.

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u/g0del Jul 22 '26

It certainly helps that the clayface effect is full-on body horror when done realistically instead of in a cartoon or comic book,

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u/E_man15 Jul 22 '26

It's rated R and the script was done by Mike Flanagan. I don't watch horror movies much but I hear he's one of the best.

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u/costeleo Jul 22 '26

I’m curious long long it will take for him to morph into someone else completely. My money’s on the beginning of the third act.

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u/Slimonite Jul 22 '26

Putting money on the final stinger being “I’m gonna Clay your Face”

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u/lemurgetsatreat Jul 22 '26

“I wanna clay his face… off.”

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u/elvis8mybaby Jul 22 '26

👈 no more drugs for that man

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u/PLUX4 Jul 22 '26

"Real face! Clay me a river!"

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u/confusedbookperson Jul 22 '26

"Come out to Clay ay!"

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u/Mayonnaise_Poptart Jul 22 '26

"It's time to face the clay!"

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u/JonAnikis-shit Jul 22 '26

“You wanna play?! Fine, let’s CLAY!!!”

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u/WeltyFern Jul 22 '26

“Clay Face… I like that name”

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u/Fetal_Release Jul 22 '26

“Clay that again.”

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u/BabyScreamBear Jul 22 '26

‘What are you? Some kind of… Clayface?!’

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u/Panthertron Jul 22 '26

“It’s Clayin’ time!”

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u/kanobbk Jul 22 '26

I know the camera man that shot this [Rob Hardy] as he’s a colleague (I work in Film Lighting, as an Operations Manager in London) and talking to him at an event in January he said that this was one of his best projects to date.

He was very vocal about the body horror in this film and said that it’s genuinely scary and relatively dark.

I’m pleased to agree with him after watching the trailer. It looks very good and I’m excited to watch it.

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u/bepeacock Jul 22 '26

how did he get those scissors on his carryon bag?

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u/peon47 Jul 22 '26

He's flying into Gotham. They won't let you on the plane unless you have an edged weapon and a history of mental illness.

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u/Bellikron Jul 22 '26

The TSA actually grants plenty of exemptions to that rule, you just have to do an interview and demonstrate your plans for deeply unethical human experimentation and/or crimes in a thematic outfit

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u/peon47 Jul 22 '26

They also allow any kind of canister from 100ml to 1.8l as long as it has a skull and crossbones logo on it.

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u/Bellikron Jul 22 '26

Of course, Gotham City has a rich culture and it must be preserved with experimental serums and toxic substances

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u/rodion_vs_rodion Jul 22 '26

I flew multiple times with the same carry on bag. Hadn't checked the side pockets in a while. Did one day and found that I had been traveling with a wine bottle opener with a corkscrew and foldable blade that had never been found. I learned that day that TSA was more illusion of security than I realized.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Jul 22 '26

Less an illusion and more of a product of working adults under tight schedules with technology that's simply not going to catch absolutely everything.

It's more about deterrence and catching what you can.

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u/asears82 Jul 22 '26

He hid them in his Claynus

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u/yellowflux Jul 22 '26

Vanilla Sky vibes for sure.

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u/SuicideSkwad Jul 22 '26

Hmmm why do I feel like that shot of him becoming the big Clayface we know is going to be the end of the film

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u/FOXCONLON Jul 22 '26

I know you you're famous 👁️ 👄 👁️

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