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Report: Warner Bros. Allegedly Tried To Cancel Todd Phillips’ Joker With A Low Ball Budget

December 10, 2020

Joker was a serious unchallenged moneymaker after it came out. Sure, it courted controversy, and it wasn't a popular idea when it was pitched, supposedly - just ask Jared Leto. From the beginning, the movie ...

Fight Club Director David Fincher Blasts ‘Joker’ As A “Betrayal of the Mentally Ill”

JB Augustine

November 18, 2020

Movies

Todd Phillips' Joker is still facing critical attacks a year after its release, with Fight Club and Gone Girl director David Fincher becoming the latest individual to publicly take issue with the film, describi...

Rumor: Joaquin Phoenix Offered Big Money To Reprise Role for Joker Sequels

JB Augustine

September 14, 2020

Movies

Despite its standalone nature, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker may spin out into a trilogy, as a new rumor suggests that Joaquin Phoenix has been offered a sizeable amount of money to put on a happy face for two back-t...

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

JB Augustine

January 6, 2020

Movies

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...

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