{"id":61417,"date":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61417\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:43:08","slug":"dcs-clayface-movie-enlists-max-minghella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61417\/","title":{"rendered":"DC&#8217;s Clayface Movie Enlists Max Minghella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/max-minghella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_max-minghella_1\" data-tag=\"max-minghella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Minghella<\/a>, one of the stars of Hulu\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, is in final negotiations to join the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/clayface\/\" id=\"auto-tag_clayface_1\" data-tag=\"clayface\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clayface<\/a>, the next DC Studios movie heading into production.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Minghella will join Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie in the horror movie being directed by Speak No Evil\u00a0director James Watkins. It goes into production this fall in the UK.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Mike Flanagan wrote the script for\u00a0Clayface, a body-horror thriller centered on a Batman villain known for his ability to alter his appearance<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The project is described as having shades and structure of\u00a0The Fly, David Cronenberg\u2019s 1986 feature that starred Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis and centered on the tragic relationship between a scientist who becomes fused with the DNA of a fly and the journalist writing about his discovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tClayface, which sources have said will have a budget in the mid-$40 million range, centers on an ascending actor (Harries) whose face is disfigured by a gangster. As a last resort, the actor turns to a fringe Elizabeth Holmes-style scientist (Ackie) for help.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Minghella will play a Gotham City police detective who is dating the scientist.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The movie is set for a Sept. 11, 2026 release date.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Minghella earned an Emmy nomination for playing the conflicted Nick Blaine in Handmaid\u2019s Tale, which came to an end this spring. He recently wrapped the fourth season of the HBO drama, Industry,\u00a0and saw his psychological thriller Shell premiered last at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson and Kaia Gerber.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Minghella is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Jackoway Tyerman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Max Minghella, one of the stars of Hulu\u2019s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, is in final negotiations to join the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9711,96,32982,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-61417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-clayface","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-max-minghella","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}