EXCLUSIVE: We’re listening to that Sorry, Child and Mickey 17 actress Naomi Ackie is the best choice for the feminine lead in DC Studios’ Clayface, in regards to the Batman antagonist.
Whereas it’s nonetheless early within the dealmaking course of, if she accepts the half, Ackie will star reverse Welsh actor Tom Rhys Harries within the James Watkins-directed style film. We had been first to let you know about Harries and Watkins’ attachment to the method.
Clayface might be taking pictures at Warner Bros Leavesden studio within the UK.
Phrase is leaking about Ackie and Clayface at an thrilling time for DC. Its first film underneath studio label bosses Peter Safran and James Gunn, Superman, is coursing to $409 million worldwide, one other comeback for superhero films. DC is heading to San Diego Comedian-Con this week strutting its stuff for the second season of HBO’s Peacemaker.
Clayface is a shape-shifting villain within the Batman comics and obtained his introduction as a part of Detective Comics #40 in June 1940. The unique Clayface was a reasonably profitable actor who adopted the identification of a personality he’d portrayed in a horror pic after turning to crime. Clayface has a physique seemingly made out of clay and has appeared over time in movies, sequence, animated works, video video games and different types of media.
Producing Clayface are Gunn and Safran in addition to The Batman filmmaker Matt Reeves and Lynn Harris. Chantal Nong is govt producer. The Lifetime of Chuck filmmaker Mike Flanagan wrote the primary draft of the script, with further drafts by Oscar-nominated The Wings of a Dove and Drive scribe Hossein Amini.
The London-born Ackie has landed a slew of nice roles together with that of Whitney Houston in I Need to Dance With Anyone, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the Netflix sequence Grasp of None, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 and A24’s Sorry, Child from Eva Victor which is presently in theaters.
Ackie is repped by CAA, Hamilton Hodell, Vary Media and Peikoff Mahan Legislation Workplace.
We’ll replace you when DC Studios returns our request for remark.
