‘Joker’ Movie Will Make People ‘Mad’

There is, in some way (fortunately?), just one main “superhero” film left this yr. It additionally may be one of the best. Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, and Marc Maron, is a extra grounded spin on the Clown Prince of Crime than we’re used to. Which is to say, it doesn’t look twisted. But it’ll make folks mad (hopefully differently than Jared Leto’s Joker). That’s based on director Todd Phillips in an interview with Empire journal, the place he additionally revealed that the plot is unique, and never taken from any particular comedian.

“We didn’t follow anything from the comic books, which people are gonna be mad about,” the Old School helmer mentioned. “We just wrote our own version of where a guy like Joker might come from. That’s what was interesting to me. We’re not even doing Joker, but the story of becoming Joker. It’s about this man.” That man being failed comic Arthur Fleck, who Maron described as a “mentally ill person that becomes the Joker.” But who’re his guys?

Phillips, who has labored with everybody from Bradley Cooper to Robert Downey, Jr. to Will Ferrell, additionally known as Phoenix “the greatest actor. We had a photo of him above our computer while we were writing. We constantly thought, god, imagine if Joaquin actually does this.” Phillips didn’t specify which picture, however I assume it was this one.

Joker opens on October 4.

(Via Empire)