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Rumor: Joker origin movie will feature a young, bullied Joker with a permanent smile
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Mike Works
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RecRoulette
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Sounds like complete nonsense, yet nothing is impossible for these folks.
I like his stitched-together origin story from The Dark Knight, like there were grains of truth in the lie-origins he told. He was a victim of childhood abuse which strained his psyche, as an adult he gambles and gets his face carved up by mob sharks, which causes his wife to leave him, and his fragile psyche crumbles.
Or you can go more classic, a guy with a lot of gambling debt turns to petty crime as the Red Hood until a bad run-in at a chemical plant.
I'd almost argue that the best way to portray Joker is one who uses his insanity as a facade. That deep down he's just an ugly sociopath who wears psychopathy like a cloak to make him seem more dangerous than he is, and to attract people like Harley to him.
Or you can go more classic, a guy with a lot of gambling debt turns to petty crime as the Red Hood until a bad run-in at a chemical plant.
I'd almost argue that the best way to portray Joker is one who uses his insanity as a facade. That deep down he's just an ugly sociopath who wears psychopathy like a cloak to make him seem more dangerous than he is, and to attract people like Harley to him.
VendettaRed07
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Doubt they'll get better talent than that to make this garbage
disappeared
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They greenlit Young Sheldon so who the hell knows.
broncobuster
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Phillips is sketchy but it's an elseworlds story. Conceptually it sounds fine.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
George Oscar Bluth II
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None of that studio trash
Uwe Boll is also an auteur
I hear that the film will fade to credits playing Last Resort by Papa Roach. To drive home the complex writing.
Not only that, they got everyone's favorite tomboy beanpole to play his mistress.
Bobby Roberts
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heyyyyyyyyy
Albino_Yeti
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"It's super dark and real."
Very rarely are these good words to hear about a movie. More often than not, it just means they are going to try and be edgy just so they can say they are being edgy, instead of it actually making the movie better.
Very rarely are these good words to hear about a movie. More often than not, it just means they are going to try and be edgy just so they can say they are being edgy, instead of it actually making the movie better.
broncobuster
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Leto is the DCEU Joker, so same as the Harley Quinn Joker and all.
This one is a separate thing. It's unclear if Batman or other Gotham characters will show up, much less other DC characters.
Only two Jokers, although Lauren Cohan might be Flashpoint Joker. That's technically part of DCEU.
George Oscar Bluth II
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PhoncipleBone
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Imagine a documentary like the Episode 1 documentary "The Beginning", but about WB trying to get the DCEU going over the last few years. It would be incredibly fascinating.
If by child actor, you mean a 24 year old playing a 16 year old.
batman will show up at the end and the joker will say
"we're not so different, you and i"
Dead animals with glasgow grins wearing used condoms.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
It should really be about a kid born with a "DAMAGED" tattoo on his face, that would be way more traumatic than smiling all the time.
Next week on Young Sheldon, an experiment takes a wrong turn that leaves Sheldon with a permanent smile leading to an intensely dark train of events culminating in the creation of The Joker, but is it all just in Sheldon's head or is it realer than real? Find out next week, same bad channel, same bad time.
Hey its not like he was mailing them copies of Suicide Squad
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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reading DC movie news and peoples reactions to it has become one of my favorite pastimes over the last 3 years or so
broncobuster
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Actually, what's extra confusing is this dude says it's on the streets of Brooklyn. Maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about. Maybe the movie won't even be set in Gotham. Maybe it's more along the lines of a Secret Identity elsewords story.
And in that sense, Batman in our world would've been killed his first night out. Which explains why there's no Batman.
Fancyarcher
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Gotta make him dark & gritty after all, he has to have some tragic backstory. Next they should take inspiration from All Star Batman & Robin, and not even have him smile while we're at it.
He's just an executive producer. As an executive producer Scorsese with a few projects that were less then stellar lets just say.
He's just an executive producer. As an executive producer Scorsese with a few projects that were less then stellar lets just say.
thetrin
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I swear to god the comics industry has some bizarre Dorian Grey shit going on.
The better the comics do, the worse the movies do, and vice versa. Just look at Marvel and DC right now, compared to their movie output...
The better the comics do, the worse the movies do, and vice versa. Just look at Marvel and DC right now, compared to their movie output...
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Willem Dafoe as young joker.
NealMcCauley
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You know having a permanent smile since childhood would really take away some mystique.
"Hey honey, Michael's on the news again! I guess Pearly Whites never got over that name, huh?"
"Hey honey, Michael's on the news again! I guess Pearly Whites never got over that name, huh?"
SchrodingerC
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Please WB, stop this madness before it officially starts to film.
Might as well make WWCU