JOKER: Joaquin Phoenix's Deranged Clown Prince Of Crime Glares From The Cover Of Il Venerdi Magazine

JOKER: Joaquin Phoenix's Deranged Clown Prince Of Crime Glares From The Cover Of Il Venerdi Magazine

Ahead of Joker's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the end of the month, we have a chilling new look at Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Clown Prince of Crime on the cover of Il Venerdi...

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By MarkCassidy - Aug 14, 2019 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Joker
Joker is set for its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this month, and in anticipation, director Todd Philips has shared a new look at star Joaquin Phoenix in full clown makeup as he fixes us with a bone-chilling glare from the cover of Il Venerdi magazine.

The movie doesn't open until October 4, but has already generated quite a lot of buzz - both positive and negative. Those who have seen it offer very high praise for Phoenix's turn as Arthur Fleck and believe he has a good shot at an Oscar nomination. However, a leaked version of the script has also come in for some backlash because it reportedly depicts the main character - who is a mass-murdering psychopath - as a mass-murdering psychopath.



Joker also stars Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais and Shea Whigham. The movie's worldwide premiere takes place at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, at 7pm Central European/1pm Eastern/10am Pacific.

Tell us, are you looking forward to Joker ? Drop us a comment down below, and have a scroll through some hi-res screengrabs from the first trailer.


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tmp3
tmp3 - 8/14/2019, 3:31 PM
Looks TwIsTeD
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 8/14/2019, 3:37 PM
OT: Halfway through The Boys and I wasn’t expecting much (I haven’t read the comic) but man, what a show! And this guy... he’s something else.

MrCamw1
MrCamw1 - 8/14/2019, 3:38 PM
@PlusUltra - that plane sequence though
Gravityle
Gravityle - 8/14/2019, 3:40 PM
@PlusUltra - Homelander is both my most favorite/hated character on that show. Second is Frenchie.
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/14/2019, 3:41 PM
@PlusUltra - Homelander's the MVP
Origame
Origame - 8/14/2019, 3:51 PM
@PlusUltra - they did him so much better than in the comics.
Repian
Repian - 8/14/2019, 3:53 PM
@PlusUltra - This guy can become my new favorite candidate to be Adam Warlock.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 8/14/2019, 3:56 PM
@Repian - I've been rotating him in my head through different MCU roles and the best choices I've found have been Doctor Doom or Richard Rider, but Warlock could be fun, too, if he's willing to put up with the gold paint.

...And somewhere along the way I've gotten obsessed with Logan Browning as Sue Storm. I can't quite shake it, and I'm not sure I want to.
tmp3
tmp3 - 8/14/2019, 4:00 PM
@Spock0Clock - Come on, you missed out on the obvious choice.
Hyperion.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 8/14/2019, 4:10 PM
@tmp3 - I think he's already done what he can with that character, though. (And also, I'm not super fond of Starr for him.)

My ideal casting for Mark Milton would have been Chris Pratt, the perfect slightly doofy midwestern dude with the ability to go dark as the world around him fell apart. And I just don't think Marvel proper is ever going to touch the Squadron anyway. I would love it, but I'm trying to be realistic.
Gravityle
Gravityle - 8/14/2019, 3:39 PM
It's the year of clowns isn't it?
RageDriver2401
RageDriver2401 - 8/14/2019, 3:39 PM
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 8/14/2019, 3:43 PM
So far I’m excited, I’m typically against telling Jokers origins but I’m taking this as either an Elseworlds story or just one potential story Joker would tell like in TDK or the Killing Joke. I’d be happy if this was just a one and done and they didn’t try to add him to any kind of universe which I think is the plan at the moment but maybe they’ll try to fold it into whatever Matt Reeves Batman is
Origame
Origame - 8/14/2019, 3:54 PM
@Ha1frican - thats what im thinking they're doing. Just a general story of a man slowly becoming a psychopath that also has batman references then we'll get an actual joker for the batman trilogy coming up.
JonC
JonC - 8/14/2019, 4:24 PM
@Origame - this almost sounds like some sort or overarching plan by DC... i just don't see that happening... we will likely get another version for a bats movie... and DC will have had no overall plan to make it all make sense.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 8/14/2019, 4:38 PM
@Ha1frican -
From the trailer, interviews, and plot leaks, it does look like this Joker has more in common with the Pre-Alan Moore Joker than the modern Joker that most comic book readers are used to.

If you read the comics from the 1970s, such as The Laughing Fish and Joker's Five Way Revenge, the Joker actually was mentally ill. He even had inner monologue boxes that derailed and made no logical sense. The intelligent nihilist "embodiment of evil" Joker came after The Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke.

He's also wearing the Cesar Romero suit, which further shows that this is probably a Pre-Crisis style Joker. Todd Phillips was mostly warning fans not to go full elitist because of it being a grounded version that takes a lot of liberties. We're definitely not going to see him fall into a vat of chemicals or any pre-existing origin story from the comic.
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 8/14/2019, 3:49 PM
Did I ever tell you how I got these oSCARS????

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MDFPodcast
MDFPodcast - 8/14/2019, 4:18 PM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - Goddamn love it. Romero looks like he's having the greatest time!
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