Smile And Put On A Happy Face For Joker First Trailer
Could this Autumn we finally see the true origin film for the Clown prince of Crime the Joker? Smile and put on a happy face, Joaquin Phoenix will be that clown prince and watch the First Trailer!
For months we’ve been teased with images for Todd Phillips origin film for Batman’s Arch Nemesis. The reception for them where sceptical. With the positive reviews for Shazam! and watch the trailer faith in DC Universe may just rising like the phoenix from the flames rising from the ashes.
Joker is set in the 1980s and could easily be Phillips love letter to Martin Scorsese’s films from the era, Taxi Driver and King Of Comedy. Ironically DeNiro is in this and we do see him the trailer as the talk show host. His part may be small but pivotal to the story.
This is a character study of a mentally ill individual Arthur Fleck who becomes the iconic villain. A troubled soul on the brink of insanity, someone who is disregarded by society. We see picked on by kids, beat up by adults. Starting as a struggling comedian, slowly transforming into that clown prince of crime.
Thankfully Phoenix is convincingly real, fragile, human not the dreadful unrealistic Leto. Smile And Be Happy!
Related: Put On A Happy Face For First Look Joker Poster
Joker centres around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck (Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.
The film also stars Robert DeNiro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, Bill Camp, Glenn Fleshler, Shea Whigham, Brett Cullen, Douglas Hodge and Josh Pais.
Joker will be released in the UK and Ireland from 4th October.
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