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Rumor: Joker origin movie will feature a young, bullied Joker with a permanent smile
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Strangelove77
Member
It's like Evanesence and Papa Roach fans grew up and and got jobs at Warner to make these DC movies.
old manatee
Banned
It's super dark and cool and Joker is there and he's cool but dark too and everything is heavy and dark and really captures the zeitgeist and it's going to be all things to all people but also dark and real goddamnit and cool too. It's going to take place in the streets of Battle Creek Michigan in the shadow of Big Cereal and Joker has like an allergy to cereal or whatever and he gets picked on at school in a real way that will hit you in a dark place emotionally because it's holding up a mirror to the dark world we live in.
It's going to be Rated R because the world is Rated R and it's real like the world and it's totally divorced from the last shitty movie we made with Joker in it unless you liked that movie in which case it's building right atop that movie's foundation. We're gonna get some fuckin auteur to direct it. I don't know someone dark and cool who came from somewhere real.
It's going to be Rated R because the world is Rated R and it's real like the world and it's totally divorced from the last shitty movie we made with Joker in it unless you liked that movie in which case it's building right atop that movie's foundation. We're gonna get some fuckin auteur to direct it. I don't know someone dark and cool who came from somewhere real.
Albino_Yeti
Member
Yea lol, or just drop a bunch of laughing gas on them. Does Joker target kids often though? It seems like he doesn't really mess with kids, unless they are Robin lol.
Is that a school he's blowing up? Damn Joker... Still didn't shoot it up though.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I have not. I was in a position to at a screening once. I declined.
Amazing
Shin K Dash
Member
That's the Letoker and Harley suicide squad sequel/prequel/whatever film.
You don't need to insult Gotham like that.
shira
Member
In Brooklyn?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
I wouldn't be surprised.
Nah.
The film will end with Joker living as a homeless teen in crime alley. We'll see him hunched over on a wall, with the big grin and lifeless eyes. We'll then see a well dressed couple and their kid, who is dancing around pretending to be a sword fighter, go by. There will be a 30 second slow zoom on the Joker's face as we hear the footsteps recede, followed by two gunshots. Then the smile will finally reach the Joker's eyes.
Complex writing achieved. Queue Down with the Sickness and fade to black.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Make him like Lou in Nightcrawler.
Have they actually lost their minds over there or what?
Jesus Christ. God save us from all the edgy 13 year old's that will obsesses over this film.
Jesus Christ. God save us from all the edgy 13 year old's that will obsesses over this film.
A Link to the Past
Banned
I mean
Scorcese can turn this around yeah?
Scorcese can turn this around yeah?
DecoReturns
Member
I hope it ends with him getting his damage tattoo.
broncobuster
Banned
I think most elseworlds stories sound odd in concept, but it comes down to execution. My concern here is director and writer not instilling much confidence that they could pull it off.
It's a shame this is the first elseworlds movie. Its success or failure likely influences future elseworlds movies.
Like, way back when Aronofsky's idea for a year one movie came out, people hated the direction as a mainline Batman movie. But that's the sort of project that works well under this initiative.
Alter_Fridge
Member
Goddamn lol.
Dongs Macabre
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ZackieChan
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Demoskinos
Member
That description was all I needed to know they have no idea what they are doing with this character. A joker origin story *could* be cool. But this is... just not the way.
Nightwing123
Member
I don't like this idea but since this is supposed to be an elseworld type story than I guess I can stomach it. I just want this movie be a well made Joker film.
What did he mean by this?
Member
HA HA HA
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
The only good Joker backstory is the ones where he has no back story or one where it's all questionable & vague. The character functions best when he pops out of nowhere in response to Batman being Batman. Trying to give him a literal tragic backstory ruins the character.
old manatee
Banned
Yeah, horrifically dark and terrifyingly real and chock full of truth bombs to keep you up at night starring the joker.
One of the worst parts of this is that they're putting a clear spotlight on the director by focusing on the word "auteur", which is ironic given that it's an existing property and was apparently developed by two people together. Do they really want to showcase the director when it's a scrub like Todd Phillips. Even if people still think Hangover is funny is it funny because of the direction or the screenplay he didn't write (sounds like a real auteur to me).
TheRedSnifit
Member
No lie: this was my exact face when I read OP.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
well played, Zack