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Joaquin Phoenix officially cast as Joker in new Origin movie

a916

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LewieP said:
Aggressively chasing short term profits rather than taking their time to tell good stories.

The sheer hubris of rushing into a justice league movie directly after the total car crash of BvS says it all. Feels like the suits making decisions don't care about the quality of the movies, they just want to get movies out as quickly as possible.
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Less hubris and more unavoidable calamity... they started filming/pruduction what, weeks after BvS?
 
Sargerus

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WB/DC officially have no fucking idea what the fuck they are doing with DC movies.
 
Mariachi507

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The casting is inspired, but what a stupid boring idea. Of all of the comic book villains to do an origin story for.
 
Nightwing123

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Joaquin Phoenix is an amazing and I love Joker so this movie is getting me excited. Now I just hope the movie turns out to be good.
 
mario_O

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It will be interesting to see how different his Joker will be from Ledger's. Sure he'll try to do something different.
 
Saifu

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Has the potential to be on the same league as Ledger.
I wonder if Leto is offended by this...
 
Wingfan19

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im so confused now.

So Leto isn't going to be the joker anymore?

Are they rebooting the entire DCU?

Does that mean no more Cavill Supes?
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Leto is still the Joker in the DCEU
They are not rebooting anything
Cavill Supes is still happening

This Joker movie is NOT in the DCEU. It's a stand alone movie that will be under the rumored 'DC Dark' imprint. This movie is also rumored to be set in the 80's.
 
Apathy

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The casting is great for the character but I have like zero confidence in DC to not fuck this up in some way.
 
KillingJoke

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I don't get the negativity. Everything must be Universe now? A DC standalone is a fucking breath a fresh air at this point. I enjoy the director and i love Phoenix so im in.

I don't mind an origin if they do it right. Didn't hurt Nicholson's Joker.
 

Zedelima

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Well, given Phoenix track record, i betting that he only accepted this because the script was good.
He doesn't need to deal with gargabe
 
LewieP

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Wingfan19 said:
Leto is still the Joker in the DCEU
They are not rebooting anything
Cavill Supes is still happening

This Joker movie is NOT in the DCEU. It's a stand alone movie that will be under the rumored 'DC Dark' imprint. This movie is also rumored to be set in the 80's.
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Because the other DC movies are so light in tone.
 
Disco

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mario_O said:
It will be interesting to see how different his Joker will be from Ledger's. Sure he'll try to do something different.
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Something akin to his character in the Master with the same subdued rage as in You Were never Really Here would be amazing. I dont think hes gonna be as animated and lively as the jokers we've seen before

God I hope Todd Phillips dont fuck this up, casting is so good
 
Slayven

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Only Joker story that would get me in the theater
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Chekhonte

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First time I've been very curious about a super hero movie in a long ass time.
 
AztecComplex

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Strafer said:
He definitely got the skills for it.

I'll wait for a trailer or first picture to judge more clearly.

I remember being hesitant regarding Heath and we all know how that turned out.
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I remember the rumor a were Nolan was deciding between Heath and Robin Williams. Having only 1989's Jack Nicholson as reference I thought Williams was an obvious shoe in for the role and remember going "what? The gay cowboy will be the Joker!?"

Since then I've learned to give actors, especially the more unknown ones, the benefit of the doubt.
 
Nacho

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I mean.... goood I guess. Im interested to see his take....

but, wtf is DC doing? Multiple joker actors?

Joker origin?

wtf.
 
AztecComplex

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I feel Phoenix gives us so much as 50% of the effort he put into his Comodus role we're in for a wild ride!
 
TheDestructiveSquirrel

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Uhhh I thought the Joker isn't supposed to have a definitive origin story

They should just do a series of shorts of Joker telling people different origin stories lol
 
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