DC Developing Joker Origin Movie

It’s No Joke?

♦ According to Deadline, Warner Bros. are developing a Joker origin movie produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips…

Warner Bros and DC are in the very early stages of another Batman Universe spinoff movie, this one telling the origin story of the signature villain The Joker. The studio has set The Hangover‘s Todd Phillips to co-write a script with 8 Mile scribe Scott Silver. Phillips will direct the movie, and Martin Scorsese will produce it with Phillips. This will be the first film under a new banner that has yet to be named in which WB can expand the canon of DC properties and create unique storylines with different actors playing the iconic characters.

Deadline are speculating that the intention is to make an origin story that isn’t part of any other iteration.The intention is to make a gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime film set in early-’80s Gotham City that isn’t meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese’s films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy. Deadlne says that Phillips and Silver are writing already, but there is nothing concrete on where this will fit into the DC schedule.

It is likely that a different actor to Jared Leto who played him in Suicide Squad will be playing him in this.

Deadline Joker Origin Movie News