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"I don't see connecting to anything in the future," he said. He reiterated that he does not think Phoenix's Joker exists in the same DC Universe as Pattinson's Batman.

#Joaquin phoenix joker in new batman movie#

Now Playing: Joker Movie Review - An Essential Comic Book MovieĪt the Toronto International Film Festival this week, Phillips shared more insight. Hamill’s Joker will always be one for the ages.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Hamill carried his performance over to the video game universe, starting with Batman: Arkham Asylum, which gave us one of the most compelling Bat-stories of any medium. Hamill’s maniacal laughter and snarling delivery is often as funny as it is terrifying, a trait he plays up in the animated adaptation of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s famous one-off The Killing Joke.

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The classic Batman: The Animated Series gave us a Joker straight out of the Silver Age: some goofy plans, over the top shtick, and is an absolute blast every time he shows up. Still, let’s face it: there is but one greatest animated Joker, and it’s Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill. Notable among them are Zack Galifinakis’ obsessive, family-friendly Joker in The Lego Batman Movie, Alan Tudyk’s spot-on narcissist in HBO Max's hilarious Harley Quinn series, and Troy Baker’s turn in the prequel game Batman: Arkham Origins. The animated DC universe is a whole other realm, and the Joker has been played by many, many voice actors over the years. The remixing Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver bring to their origin story is in line with Gotham's approach to the character: the Joker stands for absolute chaos, which can spread like a virus under the right (or wrong) circumstances. Todd Phillips directs in a tone similar to Christopher Nolan's Bat-films, but in a different, darker key. There are any number of adjectives one could conjure to describe Joker: disturbing, grotesque, difficult, shocking.

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This is where Joker leaves the comic book source material behind, becoming a dark psychological thriller in the mold of its two main inspirations, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. Like the Joker of Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck is a failed comedian who becomes a criminal. Like Gotham, Joker exists in a pre-Batman Gotham City. Leto’s brief cameo as the Joker at the very end of Snyder’s extended Justice League director’s cut marked a compelling, too-brief return to that character, making an argument for continuing that version of the Batman universe in some form.ĭirector Todd Phillips' solo Joker film proved to be divisive and surprising, delivering an Elseworlds-style alternate-universe take on the character. That Joker is muscular, heavily tattooed, and more of a ruthless, serial-killing crime boss than the super villain mastermind we’ve come to expect. This interpretation seems to draw inspiration from Frank Miller’s infamous All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder comics, which ran from 2005 to 2008. This Joker is less of anarchic demon than a pure, psychopathic mass murderer. Still, despite Ayers’ heavy-handed and tonally inconsistent approach to the Bat-verse established by Zack Snyder in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, there is actually plenty to admire about Leto’s Mister J. Leto’s Joker veered so far from Ledger’s take on the character, it left some audiences seething. Heath Ledger’s brilliant performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight was eight years old by then, yet remained burned into the minds of just about everyone. There are plenty of fans who likely want to forget about Jared Leto’s performance in David Ayer’s much-maligned 2016 Suicide Squad altogether. The show’s notion that the Joker is something akin to a viral psychological attitude works, in no small part due to Monaghan’s unhinged performance(s). While the show could not include any overt Joker character due to corporate mandates, show runner Bruno Heller managed to include several clever Joker references and character touches, from the famous scarred smile to a character falling in a vat of acid. Presenting its own origin stories for classic Batman characters like Catwoman, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, the Penguin, and Bane, Gotham also introduced multiple potential Jokers, culminating in Cameron Monaghan’s committed performances as deranged twin brothers Jerome and Jeremiah Velasko. It mutated into something very different over time, going gleefully off the rails.

Gotham began as a fairly gritty procedural series following incorruptible cop Jim Gordon ( Ben McKenzie) and his grizzled partner Harvey Bullock ( Donal Logue) as they navigate the increasingly-insane streets of a pre-Batman Gotham City.