JOKER Origin Story In The Works At Warner Bros. - SUICIDE SQUAD's Jared Leto Will Not Reprise The Role

JOKER Origin Story In The Works At Warner Bros. - SUICIDE SQUAD's Jared Leto Will Not Reprise The Role

WB has a Joker solo movie in the works with The Hangover‘s Todd Phillips co-writing & directing, & Martin Scorsese on board as producer. Jaret Leto will not play the younger version of the character...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 22, 2017 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Joker
Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is planning a Batman spin-off that will focus on the early criminal career of The Dark Knight's arch nemesis, The Joker . However, word is this will not be directly connected to the current crop of DCEU movies and Suicide Squad's Jared Leto will not return to play the Clown Prince of Crime.

Apparently, writer/director Todd Phillips' project is to 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." In other words, it will exist alongside the DC Films Universe, in which Leto is still on board as the present-day Joker and will appear in both Suicide Squad 2 and Gotham City Sirens.

Is the studio attempting to create a big-screen version of The Multiverse? Certainly looks that way.

The spin-off has none other than Martin Scorsese on board as a producer, and Deadline reckons the legendary director's early work like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull will be a big influence. The intention is to make a "gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime film set in early-’80s Gotham City."
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Kr08
Kr08 - 8/22/2017, 3:35 PM
This is not a re-cast. They did not get rid of Leto. They are building a DC Multiverse by creating new films outside of the DCEU.

Jcool
Jcool - 8/22/2017, 3:37 PM
@Kr08 - This is in the DCEU, but just like Wonder Woman its in the past.
Kr08
Kr08 - 8/22/2017, 3:39 PM
@Jcool - Read the article, not the title.

"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

They're creating a Multiverse. They're basically making The Killing Joke without any of the DCEU actors.
Kr08
Kr08 - 8/22/2017, 3:48 PM
"About the new banner, as described to me this new banner allows for Warner to take characters from DC properties to spin-off into features" - Justin Kroll

Not DCEU.
bigdannymac
bigdannymac - 8/22/2017, 3:53 PM
@Kr08 - Yep, if this whole report is true .. it claims Leto will be back as Joker for SS2 and Sirens
Jcool
Jcool - 8/22/2017, 4:02 PM
@Kr08 - You are sure good at reading into things. This isn't a multiverse its just prequel films. The Joker movie will be how he became the Leto version we have now.
HannibalLecter
HannibalLecter - 8/22/2017, 4:18 PM
@Kr08 - WB just don't know what to do with the DCEU, their plans are a mess and it wouldn't surprise me that they got this idea from Fox's Doctor Doom origin movie.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 8/22/2017, 4:21 PM
@Jcool - how are you not understanding what everyone is telling you?!
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 8/22/2017, 3:36 PM
But we already have a Joker ORIGIN film

LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 8/22/2017, 3:37 PM
Plus The Dark Knight is the perfect Joker film

Everything you could want to see the Joker do, he basically does in The Dark Knight
gmoney0505
gmoney0505 - 8/22/2017, 3:39 PM
@LEVITIKUZ - Totally agree
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