Clayface trailer leans into the body horror
Clayface trailer leans into the body horror
《泥面人》预告片侧重身体恐怖元素
The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow, and DC Studios and Warner Brothers are setting the stage by dropping the first full trailer for Clayface, part of the DC Universe’s “Gods and Monsters” arc. 圣迭戈国际动漫展（San Diego Comic-Con）将于明天开幕，DC工作室和华纳兄弟率先发布了《泥面人》（Clayface）的首支完整预告片，该片属于DC宇宙“神明与怪物”（Gods and Monsters）篇章的一部分。
The film started out as a Mike Flanagan project (he’s the horror master who brought us The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, Midnight Mass, and Doctor Sleep, among other creepy delights). Flanagan said he was inspired by the 1992 “Feat of Clay” episode in Batman: The Animated Series, aspiring to create a film that combined body horror with a tragic thriller. 这部电影最初是迈克·弗拉纳根（Mike Flanagan）的项目（他是恐怖片大师，曾为我们带来《鬼入侵》、《厄舍府的崩塌》、《午夜弥撒》和《睡眠医生》等令人毛骨悚然的佳作）。弗拉纳根表示，他的灵感来源于1992年《蝙蝠侠：动画系列》中的“Feat of Clay”一集，他渴望创作一部将身体恐怖与悲剧惊悚相结合的电影。
DC Studios CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran loved Flanagan’s pitch and brought the movie into their rebooted DCU. Alas, Flanagan had to bow out of the project due to scheduling conflicts—he’s a busy man these days—and James Watkins stepped in as director. But Gunn has said the final script retained Flanagan’s original story, with Hossein Amini doing some rewrites. DC工作室的联合首席执行官詹姆斯·古恩（James Gunn）和彼得·萨夫兰（Peter Safran）非常喜欢弗拉纳根的构思，并将这部电影纳入了他们重启后的DC宇宙。遗憾的是，由于档期冲突，弗拉纳根不得不退出该项目（他最近确实非常忙碌），詹姆斯·沃特金斯（James Watkins）接手担任导演。但古恩表示，最终剧本保留了弗拉纳根的原始故事，并由侯赛因·阿米尼（Hossein Amini）进行了一些重写。
The film will feature the origin story of the Matt Hagen incarnation of Clayface, introduced to the DCU in the animated Creature Commandos series (Alan Tudyk voiced the character). Per the official premise: Matt Hagen’s meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss’s actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge treatment that miraculously returns him to his former self… but also unexpectedly affects his grip on reality, spiraling him down a destructive path of all-consuming revenge. 这部电影将讲述泥面人马特·哈根（Matt Hagen）版本的起源故事，该角色此前已在DC宇宙的动画剧集《生物突击队》（Creature Commandos）中登场（由艾伦·图代克配音）。根据官方剧情简介：马特·哈根从哥谭街头少年到好莱坞当红男星的飞速崛起，因当地犯罪头目的恶行而戛然而止，导致他面部严重毁容。在被团队抛弃、一无所有的情况下，马特寻求了一种尖端疗法，奇迹般地让他恢复了原貌……但这也意外地影响了他对现实的感知，使他陷入了一条毁灭性的复仇之路。
The original shape-shifting villain from the 1940s was a successful actor before turning to crime, so it’s a nice little callback to the character’s long, rich history. Tom Rhys Harries (Doctor Who, The Gentlemen) stars as Hagen/Clayface, alongside Naomi Ackie (Mickey 17) as Dr. Caitlin Bates, described as a “fringe” scientist and a love interest for Hagen. Max Minghella (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays a Gotham City police detective who just happens to be dating Bates. The cast also includes Eddie Marsan, David Dencik, Francesca Corney, Ruby Sear, and Wil Coban in as-yet-undisclosed roles. 这位1940年代诞生的原始变形反派在走上犯罪道路前曾是一名成功的演员，因此这算是对该角色悠久而丰富历史的一次巧妙致敬。汤姆·瑞斯·哈里斯（Tom Rhys Harries，《神秘博士》、《绅士们》）饰演哈根/泥面人，娜奥米·阿基（Naomi Ackie，《米奇17号》）饰演凯特琳·贝茨博士（Dr. Caitlin Bates），她被描述为一名“边缘”科学家，也是哈根的爱慕对象。麦克思·明格拉（Max Minghella，《使女的故事》）饰演一名恰好在与贝茨约会的哥谭市警探。演员阵容还包括埃迪·马森、大卫·丹席克、弗朗西斯卡·科尼、鲁比·希尔和威尔·科班，他们的角色尚未公布。
A teaser dropped in April showing a bandaged Hagen in a hospital bed, ending with a shot of the character’s now-putty-like face beginning to shapeshift. This latest trailer opens with Bates asking Hagen to show her his badly disfigured face, covered in a mask. He wants his old life back—the Hollywood golden boy before thugs carved up his face—and he’s hoping Bates can give it to him. She has a radical new treatment involving the injection of a mysterious gooey substance. Hagen volunteers to be a human guinea pig, even though she cautions, “This isn’t cosmetic surgery”; there could be side effects, and she won’t know how to treat them. “Even if it kills me, I’ll be better off than I am now,” Hagen insists. He is very wrong about that. 四月份发布的预告片展示了躺在病床上缠着绷带的哈根，结尾处镜头显示他那如同油灰般的脸开始变形。最新的预告片以贝茨要求哈根摘下遮住毁容面部的面具开始。他想要找回过去的生活——那个在被暴徒毁容前的好莱坞金童——他希望贝茨能帮他实现。贝茨有一种激进的新疗法，涉及注射一种神秘的粘稠物质。哈根自愿成为人体实验对象，尽管贝茨警告说：“这不是整容手术”；可能会有副作用，而且她不知道如何处理。哈根坚持道：“即使会杀了我，也比现在这样强。”但他大错特错了。
At first, the treatment seems to have worked, but then his face starts sagging mid-flight, and we see Hagen holding a dopp kit knife in the aircraft’s restroom, presumably about to use it to open his now-blocked eyes. Ewww. His body-morphing condition just gets worse from there, fueling his rage—or perhaps it’s the other way around. 起初，治疗似乎奏效了，但随后他的脸在飞行途中开始下垂。我们看到哈根在飞机洗手间里拿着一把洗漱包里的小刀，推测他是想用它来睁开被堵住的双眼。真恶心。他的身体变形状况从此愈演愈烈，助长了他的愤怒——或者说，也许情况恰恰相反。
Clayface hits theaters on October 23, 2026. 《泥面人》将于2026年10月23日上映。