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MOVIES: Joker - News Roundup *Updated 28th August 2019*

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3rd April 2019 - Teaser Trailer

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2nd April 2019 - Poster; Teaser Trailer Tomorrow

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Teaser trailer tomorrow. #JokerMovie

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22nd March 2019 - New BTS Photo

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Editing #Joker

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On set. Five minute break. 📷 @nikotavernise

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14th February 2019 - Jared Leto Solo Movie Shelved

The Suicide Squad sequel, meanwhile, is moving forward as a sort of soft reboot to some extent, and is expected to have a new cast of characters and avoid direct tie-in to the first film's events.

The Mad Love-type Joker and Harley Quinn film has also fallen by the wayside, as has the solo Joker project for Jared Leto's version of the character from Suicide Squad.

Superman has been shelved for now, as a temporary measure to let Supergirl step into the limelight and carry the Kryptonian banner for a little while on the big screen, as the worlds of DC continue to evolve and solidify a path forward.




23rd October 2018 - Dante Pereira-Olso Cast as Bruce Wayne; Douglas Hodge Cast as Alfred Pennyworth

Dante Pereira-Olso is joining the film as young Bruce Wayne, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Douglas Hodge will play butler Alfred Pennyworth.




25th September 2018 - New BTS Photo

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Work.

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23rd September 2018 - First Look at Zazie Beetz + BTS Photos











21st September 2018 - Camera Test





17th September 2018 - Brett Cullen Joins Cast

After Alec Baldwin exited the role last month, Brett Cullen is stepping into the shoes of Thomas Wayne in Warner Bros.' Joker movie.




16th September 2018 - First Look at Joaquin Phoenix + BTS Photos

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29th August 2018 - Alec Baldwin Exits

Baldwin told USA TODAY Wednesday, "I'm no longer doing that movie" citing "scheduling" issues.

"I'm sure there are 25 guys who can play that part," Baldwin said.

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27th August 2018 - Alec Baldwin Joins Cast

EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin is boarding Todd Phillips’ Joker movie at Warner Bros. in a supporting role, Deadline has learned. Cameras role on Sept. 10.

While Warner Bros. has not confirmed what role, buzz is that Baldwin is poised play the role of Thomas Wayne, who in DC canon is Bruce Wayne/Batman’s father.

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31st July 2018 - Marc Maron in Talks to Join Cast

Sources tell Variety that Marc Maron is in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips’ untitled Joker origin movie.

According to sources, Maron would be portraying an agent on Robert De Niro’s talk show who plays a part in booking Phoenix’s character, and eventually causing him to go mad and become the Clown Prince of Crime.

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23rd July 2018 - Frances Conroy in Talks to Join Cast

Frances Conroy is in talks to play the Joker’s mother, Penny, in Warner Bros.’ “Joker,” an individual with knowledge of the project exclusively told TheWrap.

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23rd July 2018 - Robert De Niro in Talks to Join Cast

Robert De Niro is ready to do his first comic book movie.

While plot details are largely unknown, the stand-alone is supposed to be set in Gotham City in the early 1980s.

If a deal is made, De Niro would play a talk show host who is somehow instrumental in the Joker’s origin.




19th July 2018 - Zazie Beetz in Talks to Join Cast

Zazie Beetz is moving from absurd superheroics to a supervillain character drama.

While details of the Phillips and Scott Silver-penned script are being kept under wraps, if a deal makes, Beetz would play a single mother who catches the interest of the man who will become the Clown Prince of Crime.




18th July 2018 - Release Date Revealed

Director Todd Phillips' standalone Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix will hit theaters on Oct. 4, 2019, Warner Bros. and DC said late Wednesday afternoon.

The release date, and title, were announced as this year's edition of the ultimate fanboy gathering — Comic-Con — got underway in San Diego. Warners and DC will take the stage there on Saturday.




10th July 2018 - Joaquin Phoenix Signs Deal to Star in Joker Origin Movie

Joaquin Phoenix recently finalized his deal to star as the arch-nemesis of Batman and shooting will begin September in New York.

Todd Phillips is directing and co-wrote the script, which the studio describes as being an “exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.” Scott Silver co-wrote the script.

The budget is in the $55 million range, significantly lower than the tentpoles that dominate the form. And the standalone is meant to be darker and more experimental in tone and content (at least as experimental as a studio can be with established brands such as DC), which is described as being akin to a crime drama.




13th June 2018 - Joaquin Phoenix's Joker Expected to Film this Fall; Budget Revealed

Next year there will be two: Shazam!, starring Zachary Levi, and Wonder Woman 2, which begins shooting June 13. Then there are two potential Joker features — one to star Jared Leto, who played the character in 2016's Suicide Squad, and another, starring Joaquin Phoenix, that Todd Phillips will direct. Phillips' movie, expected to begin shooting in the fall, is budgeted at about $55 million, a fraction of most superhero pics, and may be launched under a new label that could be branded with a name like "DC Dark" or "DC Black."




5th June 2018 - Jared Leto to Star in His Own Standalone Joker Movie in Development; 2nd Joker Film in Development

Warner Bros. is looking to expand on Jared Leto’s version of the Joker, which debuted in 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” with a movie of his own.

Sources tell Variety that Leto is set to star and exec produce an untitled standalone film, paving the way for future movies branching from “Suicide Squad.”

Plot details are currently unknown, but the studio’s idea is to expand on the world created by “Suicide Squad” and tie into future installments of that property. Warner Bros. already announced that Margot Robbie’s version of Harley Quinn would be getting her own movie with a “Birds of Prey” feature, and the next goal was setting up a film for Leto’s Joker.

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22nd August 2017 - Origin Movie in Development from The Hangover Filmmaker & Martin Scorsese

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and DC are in the early stages of another Batman Universe spinoff movie, this one telling the origin story of the signature villain The Joker. The studio has set The Hangover‘s Todd Phillips to co-write a script with 8 Mile scribe Scott Silver. Phillips will direct the movie, and Martin Scorsese will produce it with Phillips. 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.

I’m told that the intention is to make an origin story that isn’t part of any other iteration. The Joker has memorably been part of two Batman movies in the form of Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger, and was most recently played by Jared Leto in the first Suicide Squad film. He will reprise in the Suicide Squad sequel and the Harley Quinn spinoff, but this new film will launch the character with a different actor, possibly younger.

An intriguing part is the setting. The intention is to make a gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime film set in early-’80s Gotham City that isn’t meant to feel like a DC movie.

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