The Joker Origin Movie: Martin Scorsese Attached as Producer
The Joker Origin Movie: Martin Scorsese Attached as Producer Warner Bros. is expanding its DC Comics film universe with an origin story for The Joker, according to several reports, with Martin Scorsese as producer alongside Todd Phillips (The Hangover), who will serve as director, and co-writer with Scott Silver (The Fighter, 8 Mile). Phillips and Silver are already working on the script, though the studio hasn't set a release date. Interestingly, it won't feature Jared Leto – who played Joker in Suicide Squad , and will reprise his role in the sequel, and Harley Quinn spin-off – but a different actor, "possibly younger", Deadline notes. The film will be "gritty and grounded hard-boiled crime" and set in the 1980s, which is meant to evoke Scorsese's own films from that era: Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. The Joker film is intended to be a spin-off, and as such, it won't need to bother with maintaining the continuity set by other i...

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