DC Studios Teases Clayface Movie with Chilling Posts

0:00On April 22nd DC Studios is wrapping up hype for their clay-faced movie with some chilling in-universe posts on Instagram. They're teasing the backstory of Matt Hagen, the actor who becomes the villain after a brutal attack. Two new images dropped, one from a fake Gotham Medical magazine cover on regenerative medicine and organ transplants, captioned, healing you from the inside out. The other shows a ripped Gotham Gazette headline screaming, actor Matt Hagen brutally attacked, with the eerie tag, Get Well Soon. These posts build on the R-rated Batman spin-offs marketing push right before the first teaser trailer. The story draws from a gangster disfiguring Hagen leading to his transformation. Tom Rees Harry stars as Hagen and James Watkins directs, pulling heavy inspiration from the Batman animated series episodes, Feed of Clay. Fans are eating it up, with that attack post already pulling in over 21,000 likes and 170 comments. Cinemacon crowds got an early look at footage heavy on body horror,

1:01and it's got everyone buzzing about this fresh take on the shape-shifting, Clayface. Expect the teaser trailer to hit tomorrow, and the films keeping costs low at around $40 million. One of the cheaper superhero flicks out. There. It lands in theaters October 23rd, 2026, after Supergirl drops June 26th, and the Lantern series hits HBON, August. DC also kicked out filming on Man of Tomorrow this week for a 2027 release. This smart, low-key promo shows DC Studios playing the long game, letting the horror build naturally before the scares really hit the screen. That's the story for today, entertainment and celebrity news today, driven by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.