Rather, it is a morose showcase of the kind of dangerous delusions that come about from a combination of declining mental health, lack of support, and the general dehumanizing alienation of city life. Indeed, Joker doesn’t offer crowd-pleasing balls-to-the-wall action. Although compelling, it is not a comic book movie that’s compatible with conventional franchise aspirations by any stretch of the imagination.īen Affleck Opens Up About Batman Return in The Flash Movie By John Saavedra What follows for the character-who suffers from a condition that causes him to randomly laugh uncontrollably-is a steady descent into madness and misapprehension that takes shape as a series of Fight Club-esque unreliable narrator elements, building tremendous tension toward a rampaging release. However, Phoenix’s massive legacy role starts out quite far-removed from its signature sinister splendor, as Arthur Fleck, a meek, emaciated specimen of a man whose aspirations to become a stand-up comedian are failing, forcing him to earn income to support his live-in mother by working as a party clown-and failing at that as well. Of course, Joker is a solo film centered on the origin story of DC Comics’ Clown Prince of Crime and Batman’s signature archnemesis. But as to whether we actually will? I don’t know.” “There are some things we could do with this guy and could further.

From when we were shooting, we started to -you know, uhh, this is an interesting guy,” answers an ambivalent Phoenix. However, with sequel rumors having been recently revived, the star’s latest comments on the matter, made to The Playlist at this week’s New York Film Festival, seem to belie the possibility… at least for the immediate future. In fact, he still seems somewhat intrigued by the notion of tackling a prospective Joker 2, which was the center of conflicting late 2019 trade reports about a studio green light, which were subsequently debunked by director Todd Phillips. Make no mistake, Phoenix hasn’t quite gone the post- Spectre Daniel Craig, “I’d rather slash my wrists” route regarding the possibility of reprising his Joker title role. However, a potential sequel remains stalled, as Phoenix now affirms. Moreover, despite its homicidal barrage of bleakness, the film grossed over $1 billion worldwide and even reaped mainstream accolades-notably star Joaquin Phoenix’s Best Actor Oscar win.

Joker first disturbed audiences on October 4, 2019-over two years ago already! Not only was it a dramatically groundbreaking outlier of a comic book movie but it was the last major genre offering to hit the big screen before the pandemic upended the theater industry.

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