Posted on 07/09/2019 4:15:26 AM PDT by C19fan
The upcoming Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix will be a wholly original take on the iconic Gotham villain. “We didn’t follow anything from the comic books, which people are gonna be mad about,” writer-director Todd Phillips told Empire. “We just wrote our own version of where a guy like Joker might come from. That’s what was interesting to me. We’re not even doing Joker, but the story of becoming Joker. It’s about this man.” His comments seem to dash fan speculation that the movie might follow portions of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s legendary The Killing Joke, the comic that provided the origin story for the Clown Prince of Crime. The book told of an aspiring comedian whose mob dealings eventually land him into a vat of chemicals at the hands of Batman.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I’m not.
There has been several takes on the Joker through the years. As long as it involves a man who has lost his mind and becomes a genocidal maniac, it should be fine.
I will wait for the reviews, however.
When will we have a real movie? I’m so tired of this teenage crap.
This is going to be an x-rated movie, or near it.
They have pajama boys making these stupid things.
Right. Who goes to a comic book film about a comic book character and says 'I hope there's nothing from the comics in this!'?
What 'writer-director' Todd Phillips is admitting is that making derivative material is OK as long as you have the fig leaf of existing characters - even if you ignore the existing character's story. It's lazy and mendacious in equal parts.
Completelty outside of canon. Okay.
Then why the brand name?
This isn’t even clever or well written teenaged crap.
Alan Moore’s writing was far and above the sky beam and floating plots Marvel and DC have been using for the big screen.
The only thing Who Framed Roger Rabbit kept from the book were a few character names and a stupid joke about a 3-year old dinky.
Plot spoiler - Roger did it.
How many Jokers do moviegoers need? If another one “must” happen, this may be too soon after the Jared Leto version.
Jared Leto is already weird enough to be remembered for a good while. For those who like mega violence, all they need do is wait for the newest version of “IT”, different story and character, but same dangerously kooky Clown.
I am not inclined to go see this movie for a start. Then they tell me that it will not be based on any “canon.” Give-a-crap-factor just went negative.
Do yourself a favor and watch “You Were Never Really Here” and then reconsider.
Jonty30 wrote:
There has been several takes on the Joker through the years. As long as it involves a man who has lost his mind and becomes a genocidal maniac, it should be fine.
Sounds like the Michael Douglas movie “Falling Down” to me. Which was great!
“Sounds like the Michael Douglas movie “Falling Down” to me. Which was great!”
Watch this excellent eye-opening review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IlXA4ArPg
The Joker = DOA, “Dead On Arrival”.
No interest in seeing this rehash, of a rehash, of a rehash of a rehash.
Hollyweird is utterly devoid of intellect, solid character development and ORIGINAL story telling.
So over comic book STUPID HERO movies.
Just create a new, original character. Call him 'Mad Man', 'Deranged' or 'Nutjob'.
There's no reason to corrupt the integrity of old one.
I don't follow comic book franchises but I despise when they 're-imagine' a classic story or character.
They are all imaginary tales but this is a ‘big 3’ studio making an exploitation film about a deranged sadist as the admirable antihero. They already did the drug fueled filming of Suicide Squad. This is just more bad boy ‘ra ra’. They birthed a psycho who gunned down a theater.
It is a sick society that promote chaos (and commercial channels with dedicated serial killer programming are that; and several feminists leaders of the 60s and 70s advocated chaos, fought their own mental institutionalization, and openly called for chaos in the streets).
Inmates run the asyulm these days.
I like Joaquin Phoenix as an actor, have enjoyed some of his work.
I just have no desire to see this movie.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.