Clayface Set Photos Reveal First Look at Bandaged Main Character, Map of DCU's Gotham City and Confirm Inclusion of an Obscure Batman Villain

Principal photography connected Clayface is presently underway successful Liverpool, England and acceptable photos making the rounds connected societal media supply a archetypal (unofficial) look astatine the film’s pb histrion successful costume and the DCU’s Gotham City. These images besides revealed further casting for the James Watkins-directed, Mike Flanagan-scripted assemblage fearfulness movie and person confirmed that an obscure Batman villain volition look successful it.

Clayface volition beryllium the archetypal live-action depiction of Gotham City successful the DCU, but erstwhile precisely the movie is acceptable is unclear from the acceptable photos. Many of the cars spotted connected the sets look to beryllium from the 1970s, yet these Gotham City TV quality vans are much contemporary.

The Daily Mail published photos of histrion Tom Rhys Harries appearing in-character, bloodied and bandaged. According to THR, Clayface “centers connected an ascending histrion whose look is disfigured by a gangster. As a past resort, the histrion turns to a fringe Elizabeth Holmes-style idiosyncratic for help.”

Just for the involvement of speculation, what if those aforementioned play cars are for a 1970s-era task Harries’ quality was filming erstwhile helium suffered his facial injuries?

The gangster who injures the histrion is seemingly Jimmy “Red” McCoy, a insignificant gangster quality from Batman #4 published successful 1940. Set photos amusement the frontpages of the Gotham Gazette and the Gotham Herald chronicling the lawsuit of “Red” McCoy.

Just to befuddle fans, though, the logo of this Gotham Gazette is successful the aforesaid benignant arsenic the 1 depicted successful Matt Reeves’ Batman universe, specifically The Penguin, which is considered Elseworlds successful the canon of the DCU.

Gunn antecedently explained wherefore Clayface belongs successful the DCU and not Matt Reeves’ Batman Epic Crime Saga. “It was important that Clayface beryllium portion of the DCU. It's an root communicative for a classical Batman villain that we privation to person successful our world,” Gunn said successful February. “It was precise extracurricular of the grounded non-super metahuman characters successful Matt's world.”

Meanwhile, an X relationship belonging to @JackkDoylee shared a bid of acceptable photos and videos, including this representation of Gotham City that confirms that Wayne Manor, Wayne Tower and Wayne Industries already beryllium successful Clayface’s timeline.

Other onlookers’ photos of props and acceptable decoration connection tiny details astir the DCU’s Gotham City. Here’s a Gotham licence plate, a GCPD squad car, an homage to Clayface co-creator Bill Finger, and a motion to Batman creator Jim Aparo included connected this funny missing idiosyncratic poster.

Set photos besides revealed that V for Vendetta and Ray Donovan histrion Eddie Marsan has joined the formed successful an unspecified role. Marsan tin beryllium seen filming what appears to a property league extracurricular a hospital. Perhaps he’s playing a GCPD detective oregon an elected official?

Clayface, which co-stars Naomie Ackie and Max Minghella, opens successful theaters September 2026.