Tom Rhys Harries, a relative newcomer, has scored the high-profile lead position in “Clayface,” an upcoming DC Studios journey.

James Gunn, the pinnacle honcho at DC, delivered the information on social media, tweeting, “After a protracted and extremely exhaustive search, we lastly have our DCU Clayface in Tom Rhys Harries. Each [‘The Batman’ director] Matt Reeves and I had been simply blown away by this man, and might’t wait so that you can see this movie.”

Reeves is producing “Clayface,” which is written by Mike Flanagan (“The Fall of the Home of Usher”) and Hossein Amini (“Drive”), and which might be directed by James Watkins (“Eden Lake”). The movie is much less superhero journey than physique horror flick, specializing in a B-movie actor who drinks a substance that’s supposed to assist his profession and which as an alternative leaves him made fully of clay. Suppose “Dying Turns into Her” with fewer jokes.

And for the majority of readers pondering Tom Rhys Harries, who? Nicely, he’s an up-and-coming Welsh actor who has impressed within the likes of the Apple TV collection “Suspicion” reverse Uma Thurman, in addition to the “Kandahar,” an motion movie with Gerard Butler, Man Ritchie’s “The Gentleman,” and “The Return,” the place he shared the display screen with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.

Manufacturing on “Clayface” will start the autumn. DC Studios is making an attempt to reestablish itself underneath Gunn after many setbacks. The corporate could have a relaunch with this summer time’s “Superman,” which Gunn directed in addition to wrote.

Rhys Harries is repped by UTA and the Curtis Brown Group within the U.Okay.