Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for much waited ‘Joker’ movie, The upcoming origin story for the classic Batman villain. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular character. It’s directed by Todd Phillips.
here have been many Jokers in big-screen history, and rarely have we needed to glean too much about their background. All we knew of Jack Nicholson’s Jack Napier prior to his transformation into the clown prince of Gotham in 1989’s Batman was that he was a second-rate hood with a weakness for statuesque blondes.
Nobody ever asked if Napier’s struggles with depression or psychosis contributed to his descent into cackling, bleachy-skinned madness.
The trailer gives us our first look at Phoenix’s depiction of the character, a clown and comedian from Gotham named Arthur who seems to have fallen on hard times. He’s beaten up and humiliated on the streets and in the subway, and he muses, “Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?” Over the course of the trailer, we see his descent into madness, appearing at the very end in costume as the classic villain.
Joker looks as though it’s pulling some of its inspiration from Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s classic graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, which introduced one origin for the character.
The #JokerMovie trailer is a pitch-black mashup of #DeNiro's three best #Scorsese films. We break down all the references and #EasterEggs in #DC's '#Joker. pic.twitter.com/MBwjIS3fTy — IMDb (@IMDb) April 4, 2019
The #JokerMovie trailer is a pitch-black mashup of #DeNiro's three best #Scorsese films. We break down all the references and #EasterEggs in #DC's '#Joker. pic.twitter.com/MBwjIS3fTy
— IMDb (@IMDb) April 4, 2019
You you guys are waiting for Batman on it, It does not look that way. The movie is not connected to the DC Extended Universe series of movies, so it’s a different version of the Joker than appeared in Suicide Squad. Bruce Wayne will appear, along with his trusty butler Alfred, and Wayne’s ill-fated father, proposing the movie is set before Bruce Wayne was orphaned and set to become Batman.
Warner Bros has made it clear that Phoenix will not be the Joker who appears in its rapidly disintegrating extended universe of DC superhero movies.
