Joker
Kevin Smith applauds Warner Bros. and DC Films for taking a hazard on Joaquin Phoenix’sThe Jokerorigin movie . Set in the ' 80s , the movie is said to undertake the Clown Prince of Crime ’s early day as afailed comedianandwill allegedly feature Batman ’s father , Thomas Wayne . Acclaimed filmmakerMartin Scorsese is ask to producethe movie whileThe Hangoverdirector Todd Phillips will helm . output is set to kick off sometime this September with a budget of $ 55 million - a comparatively small amount compare to late DC movies ' budgets .
confessedly , not everyone was thrilled when the Joker pic was announced . Even now when more detail have issue forth out with esteem to the movie , there are still people who are disbelieving about the project , specially with Jared Leto ’s previously introduced interlingual rendition still a go at Warner Bros. However , if Smith is to be asked , he reckon what the studio is doing now is finally the right move considering their current superhero movie track record .
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verbalise on the recent instalment of hisHollywood Babble - Onpodcast , the comic book cognoscente and the poster boy for geek fandom share his two cents about the approaching Joker film , and he ’s giving credit to Warner Bros. and DC Films for their latest bluff move . Here ’s what he pronounce :
I think what they ’re doing is smart . This is a bum movie , it ’s $ 55 million . They ’re not spending - $ 55 [ million ] for a amusing rule book prop ? That ’s very cheap . They ’re going Logan fashion model , which is keep it humble - budget and make it more adult .
They ’re try out . You got ta applaud ‘em for this . Everyone ’s always sh - tting on Warner Bros. going , ' You ’re f - cking up your movies ! ' And like , this is them trying a fresh way where they ’re like , ' Look , obviously the drawn-out universe stuff we ’re having a problem with . How about we just go back to the old room , which we used to do , where we just f - ckin ' take cloth , give it to a conductor , and say f - ckin ' go , and we do n’t care about a fanbase and connecting the pic .
At this gunpoint , Warner Bros. has everything to attain and ( almost ) nothing to misplace by taking a hazard on the Joker film . If this small experimentation grow out right smart well than any of the DCEU films they ’ve put out thus far , then they have a potentially sustainable banner under their belt - an idea they can rightfully claim as theirs . rather of trying to emulate Marvel Studios ' business model in the hopes of also gather the same degree of masses and vital winner the MCU currently enjoy , they could be the innovator of a steel unexampled vogue that could acquire the slowly stagnating comic Good Book movie genre .
On the other script , if the venture bomb , it ’s not exit to injure as much as look a big - budget moving picture likeJustice Leagueflop yield the Joker movie ’s low budget ( which is what unexampled DC Movie president Walter Hamada is known for ) . The fact that it ’s also disjoined from the DCEU gives Warner Bros. the pick to whole disregard it moving forward since that would n’t affect the previously established canyon they are still build on .
With the citizenry need inThe Jokerorigin movie , it ’s hard to just discard it . The mere idea that Warner Bros. was able to convince Phoenix to finally work on a comic leger movie after he famously extend up on fling to play Doctor Strange in the MCU is a serious reading there ’s something peculiar about this approaching film .
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