Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker's Naomi Ackie in Early Talks To Star in DCU Body Horror Movie Clayface

Clayface is starting to instrumentality shape. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Mickey 17 histrion Naomi Ackie is successful aboriginal talks to prima successful the upcoming DCU diagnostic helmed by Speak No Evil manager James Watkins.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ackie participated successful a speechmaking league conscionable past week, successful which she ended up the favourite for the role. If she officially joins the task — and according the outlet, negotiations are to statesman soon — she volition prima alongside Tom Rhys Harries, a Welsh histrion known for his enactment successful British television, who is already acceptable to play the rubric character.

Horror favourite Mike Flanagan — who is known for his ain expansive assemblage of enactment of adapting classics specified arsenic The Haunting of Hill House, and creating full caller stories successful some the movie and tv spaces — penned the script.

The movie is acceptable to travel a rising prima histrion who ends up with a disfigured look astatine the hands of gangsters. In an effort to effort to get his aged beingness back, helium visits a questionable idiosyncratic (THR called this quality an “Elizabeth Holmes-style” analyst, which surely garners a laughter and, furthermore, intrigues) who performs what appears to beryllium a palmy attraction connected him… but of course, this is a assemblage fearfulness movie, truthful things simply cannot extremity there. Ackie's imaginable relation successful the movie is nether wraps, but it seems similar she could beryllium playing the scientist, which would beryllium fantastic casting.

According to the outlet, the movie volition person a akin consciousness to David Cronenberg’s beloved 1986 assemblage fearfulness classical The Fly, starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. The Batman manager Matt Reeves is producing the representation alongside Lynn Harris and DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran.

The movie is acceptable to get successful theaters connected September 11, 2026 — and we can’t hold to spot who other joins the fray for this one.

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