Tom Rhys Harries Lands Title Role In DC Clayface Movie

Having cut his acting teeth treading the boards with the likes of Ben Whishaw and Rupert Grint, Tom Rhys Harries has become an increasingly regular fixture on our screens in recent years, popping up in everything from Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen to Netflix drama White Lines to last year’s discourse-driving Doctor Who episode ‘Dot And Bubble’. And now it looks like the Welshman is about to break the mould with his first major blockbuster role. Per Deadline‘s reporting, Harries has just landed himself the title role in Speak No Evil filmmaker James Watkins’ upcoming DC Studios joint Clayface.

As Deadline states, a veritable who’s who of in-demand British actors made the final shortlist to play DC’s malleable man — including Sinners’ Jack O’Connell, 1917 star George Mackay, One Day‘s Leo Woodall, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes breakout Tom Blyth. In the end however, Harries — who can already name Uma Thurman (Suspicion), Ralph Fiennes (The Return), and Gerard Butler (Kandahar) among his past screen partners — has come out on top. If past reports on Clayface‘s plot prove true, then Harries will be heading into dark, tragedian (yes, slightly Substance-y) territory here to play a B-movie actor who starts taking a mysterious formula to maintain relevance, only to find himself undergoing a monstrous transformation as a consequence.

Beyond that reported logline and Harries’ casting, little else is known about the Mike Flanagan penned DCU joint, other than that Flanagan has spoken before about a desire to look at the deep-cut Batman baddie through the genre prism of not only horror (naturally), but tragedy and romance also — which makes sense given the character’s comic book origins as a rising star turned into a shapeshifting malcontent by serums/protoplasm/out-of-control chemicals. Whether Harries, Watkins, and Flanagan can sculpt a star making movie for one of DC’s most underserved (and underrated) villains very much remains to be seen, but we can say that we’re very excited to see how Clayface shapes up when it arrives in cinemas on 11 September, 2026.