Joker origin Movie

Never mind Spawn, Kick-Ass supposedly cost around $30 million and people like it (I don't).

- I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this point because I don't think Russell's films are anywhere near brilliant, though they are arguably closer to being tolerable than Phillips'.
- In fairness, he spends most of the first Deadpool angsting over the fact that she might think he's hideous now and even when that's proven untrue...



I'm just saying there's more to the guy than just being a joke machine.

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They're really going retro with this Joker movie version. I'm liking what I'm seeing.

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Woah.

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The only reason I have any interest in this movie is because of Joaquin, this first video of him as Joker has already impressed me so I hope that at least his performance is good ...

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While I do love the Joker as a character. He is a hard character to get right so it worries me this could flop.

It will be the best comic movie of the last 5 years.

Not sure what those movies are...

Not set in the DC universe...? Hmmm... do I smell another Catwoman (2004)?

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WARNING: "Shot by shot teaser trailer spoiled" spoilers below

• The trailer starts with a shot of Manhattan doubling as Gotham City.
• Arthur talking to his therapist.
• A shot of him flashing the first of several creepy smiles in the trailer.
• We see him walking and then, at home, we see him bathing his mother in a tub.
• He says his mother tells him to put on a happy face.
• His job is to dress as a clown and spin a sign on a street corner.
• Some thugs take his sign, robbing and beating him.
• We hear Arthur say: “Is it me or are things getting crazier out there?”
• Shots of Arthur on a date with Sophie.
• We see him crossing the street to Arkham Hospital.
• There’s a quick shot of an orderly looking up. The actor playing that role? Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Brian Tyree Henry.
• Arthur in an elevator unnerved by a patient thrashing in a stretcher.
• Arthur looking at the reflection of his face in clown makeup.
• Arthur running through a tunnel.
• We finally see him in full Joker makeup.
• Thomas Wayne is giving a speech about how Gotham has lost its way, about how wrong it is for people to hide behind masks.
• Shots of angry onlookers and crowd control police clashing, urban chaos.
• And it looks like Arthur actually meets young Bruce Wayne. There’s a shot of Arthur reaching through the bars of a gate (possibly at Wayne Manor) and pulling the boy’s lips up to make a smiley face.
• A quick shot of Robert De Niro as a talk show host on a very Johnny Carson-like set.
• Arthur’s dialogue: “I used to think my life was a tragedy. But now I believe it’s a comedy.”
• We see Joker dancing down a long set of stairs.
• The last shot is Joker, in full makeup but not smiling, getting into an elevator

• The trailer starts with a shot of Manhattan doubling as Gotham City.
• Arthur talking to his therapist.
• A shot of him flashing the first of several creepy smiles in the trailer.
• We see him walking and then, at home, we see him bathing his mother in a tub.
• He says his mother tells him to put on a happy face.
• His job is to dress as a clown and spin a sign on a street corner.
• Some thugs take his sign, robbing and beating him.
• We hear Arthur say: “Is it me or are things getting crazier out there?”
• Shots of Arthur on a date with Sophie.
• We see him crossing the street to Arkham Hospital.
• There’s a quick shot of an orderly looking up. The actor playing that role? Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’s Brian Tyree Henry.
• Arthur in an elevator unnerved by a patient thrashing in a stretcher.
• Arthur looking at the reflection of his face in clown makeup.
• Arthur running through a tunnel.
• We finally see him in full Joker makeup.
• Thomas Wayne is giving a speech about how Gotham has lost its way, about how wrong it is for people to hide behind masks.
• Shots of angry onlookers and crowd control police clashing, urban chaos.
• And it looks like Arthur actually meets young Bruce Wayne. There’s a shot of Arthur reaching through the bars of a gate (possibly at Wayne Manor) and pulling the boy’s lips up to make a smiley face.
• A quick shot of Robert De Niro as a talk show host on a very Johnny Carson-like set.
• Arthur’s dialogue: “I used to think my life was a tragedy. But now I believe it’s a comedy.”
• We see Joker dancing down a long set of stairs.
• The last shot is Joker, in full makeup but not smiling, getting into an elevator

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Still don't like the idea...but the trailer itself is pretty damn good.

Public: everything DC sucks!!

Joker movie: am I a joke to you?

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This.


I'd be far more interested if this was attached to Nolanverse.

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^Eh, the last thing Nolan-Joker needed was an entire film about his actual backstory.

I'm the opposite of Yoda in that the idea's interesting but I am not exactly impressed by what the trailer's shown so far.

I have zero knowledge of these types of films as they're not something I am interested in, but can someone tell me if this is a standalone film?

Is it going to be a film that will make sense if you don't know anything about these comic book worlds / characters? Or do you need to be involved in some backstory of the 'Joker' and his peers etc?

I had planned to watch this just because of Joaquin, but seeing that trailer makes me actually kind of excited for it.

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It’s a stand-alone type of affair. So you can go right in.

I think there’ll probably be a few references for those who know the character and universe but this is not part of the current DCEU and not (for now at least) something that’s supposed to bind things together or continue something from another film. Also, Phoenix wouldn’t be involved then. He isn’t interested in being part of a bigger universe.

That was why he turned down the role of Doctor Strange when he was offered the role. He didn't want to sign a 6-movie contract, and hence Benedict Cumberbatch took the role.


As for DC, I think the DCEU is pretty much non-existent at this point. We have this film, Wonder Woman 1984 being confirmed as not a sequel, but a standalone movie, James Gunn's soon to shoot The Suicide Squad is a reboot and not a sequel, and Matt Reeves' The Batman will feature a younger Batman and not the Batfleck incarnation, and is rumored to be set in the 1990s. As for The Flash, that's still up in the air right now, but last rumor is that Ezra Miller and Grant Morrison are writing a script that is dark as opposed to hired guns Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley's "light hearted" approach and with Miller getting ready to shoot the next Fantastic Beasts film this fall, shooting may not begin until at the very least 2020.

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