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Todd Phillips Wants to See What Batman Would Be Like in the Gotham of His Joker Film

January 6, 2020

Joker was supposed to have very little to do with Bruce Wayne and Batman other than a negated plot device, but Todd Phillips threw in a retelling of the Wayne family slaying for good measure anyway. That has...

Todd Phillips And Scott Silver’s Script for Joker is Now Available Online

JB Augustine

December 30, 2019

Movies

The final draft of the script for Joker by director Todd Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver is now released free online. Deadline disseminated their screenplay as a PDF everyone can read and download. A lot...

Todd Phillips Doesn’t Fully Believe Arthur Fleck is the Real Joker

JB Augustine

December 23, 2019

Movies

From the beginning of its inception, it was made clear Joker was a standalone origin story set in a separate Elseworlds continuity. It wouldn't tie into anything, not The Batman and not any comic canon. That ha...

Todd Phillips Denies Reports of a Joker Sequel and Further Solo Villain Movies

JB Augustine

November 22, 2019

Movies

Conflicting reports of a Joker sequel and other movies based on popular DC Comics villains being on the table have been addressed by the party concerned. Director Todd Phillips weighed in on chatter of a meetin...

CBR Writer Renaldo Matadeen Claims New ‘The Invisible Man’ film “More Toxic and Dangerous” Than Todd Phillips’ Joker

Jorge Arenas

November 19, 2019

Movies

CBR writer Renaldo Matadeen declared that the upcoming The Invisible Man film starring Elisabeth Moss is "more toxic and dangerous" than Todd Phillips' Joker film. In his article titled "The Invisible Man Is...

Todd Phillips Reveals Behind The Scenes Photo from Joker Hinting at Catwoman

JB Augustine

November 5, 2019

Movies

Todd Phillips' Joker, an ode to Gotham's clownish alpha bad guy and the pessimistic, morally ambivalent cinema of the 1970s, isn't meant to be connected to any canonical Batman continuity. But, that does not me...

Toby Emmerich: Warner Bros. Didn’t Expect Success or Violence Out of Joker

JB Augustine

October 31, 2019

Movies

Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker has become a phenomenon. No one really expected it to catch on like it has, not even top Warner Bros. executives. In fact, they weren't expecting much from it, at first...

Jared Leto Wanted to “Throttle” His “Rival Joker in Its Cradle” and Stop It From Being Made

JB Augustine

October 21, 2019

Movies

Previously, we reported how "alienated and upset" Jared Leto was about the Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix which is now in theaters. Since then, it's come out that Leto's anger and resentment toward the El...

Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg Responds to Dave Chappelle and Joker Director Todd Phillips

John F. Trent

October 16, 2019

Celebrity

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg recently sat down for an interview with Pete Hamby on Snapchat's Good Luck America. During the interview, Buttigieg was asked to respond to Dave Chappelle and Joker dire...

Jared Leto Was Reportedly “Alienated and Upset” Over Todd Phillips’ Joker Being Made

JB Augustine

October 11, 2019

Movies

Taking the Joker in a different direction, removed from main DC film continuity, is paying off for Warner Bros. Beside the profitability, there is a reason for star Joaquin Phoenix and director/writer Todd Phil...

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