The San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow, and DC Studios and Warner Brothers are setting the phase by dropping the very first complete trailer for Clayfacepart of the DC Universe’s “Gods and Monsters” arc.

The movie began as a Mike Flanagan job (he’s the scary master who brought us The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of your house of Usher, Midnight Massand Medical professional Sleepto name a few scary thrills). Flanagan stated he was influenced by the 1992 “Feat of Clay” episode in Batman: The Animated Seriesdesiring develop a movie that integrated body scary with an awful thriller. DC Studios CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran enjoyed Flanagan’s pitch and brought the film into their restarted DCU.

Unfortunately, Flanagan needed to bail out of the task due to scheduling disputes– he’s a hectic guy nowadays– and James Watkins actioned in as director. Gunn has stated the last script kept Flanagan’s initial story, with Hossein Amini doing some rewrites. The movie will include the origin story of the Matt Hagen version of Clayface, presented to the DCU in the animated Animal Commandos series (Alan Tudyk voiced the character). Per the main facility:

Matt Hagen’s meteoric increase from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading guy is unfortunately interrupted when a regional criminal offense employer’s actions leave him terribly damaged. Deserted by his group and with absolutely nothing left, Matt looks for a cutting edge treatment that astonishingly returns him to his previous self … however likewise suddenly impacts his grip on truth, spiraling him down a harmful course of intense vengeance.

The initial shape-shifting bad guy from the 1940s was an effective star before turning to criminal offense, so it’s a great little callback to the character’s long, abundant history. Tom Rhys Harries (Medical professional Who, The Gentlemenstars as Hagen/Clayface, together with Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17as Dr. Caitlin Bates, referred to as a “fringe” researcher and a love interest for Hagen. Max Minghella (The Handmaid’s Taleplays a Gotham City cops investigator who simply takes place to be dating Bates. The cast likewise consists of Eddie Marsan, David Dencik, Francesca Corney, Ruby Sear, and Wil Coban in as-yet-undisclosed functions.