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Scorsese to produce Joker Origin Movie, WB Exploring "Elseworlds" Movies
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Galactic Barret
Member
I would Necromance the shit out of Heath Ledger just for this project.
No one else should ever play Joker, ever. Ever.
No one else should ever play Joker, ever. Ever.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
You mean on what not to do?
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Getting the main movies on track should be priority #1 over mining the graphic novel stack for Elseworlds material.
Yeah, I'm sad it's being pushed back so much. But if we're lucky, we might end up with two Scorsese movies super close to each other at the end of 2018/early 2019.
What?
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Not sure making a Superman movie where Superman is Russian is the greatest call right now.
No, I just hope they are paying attention.
Doing alternate universe movies and planning a huge reboot is not a sign of a studio confident in the brand.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
What the fuck
GlenChivas
Member
Hmm I'd disagree on both points
This is them seeing there is money in the brand and a quick way to get a bunch of products in the pipeline without worrying about an actor's schedule
And Flashpoint seems to be them wanting to refresh the universe
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
A Joker origin movie is a terrible idea. Todd Phillips directing it is even worse.
Scorsese being involved... I don't even know what to think, lol. If it's like Spielberg with Transformers, no thanks. But I'm intrigued, I'll admit.
Elseworlds are a goldmine. They should absolutely go there. And the advantage with characters like Batman and Superman is that you don't need to explain shit, everybody will get it: it's Superman in Russia, it's Batman vs Jack the Ripper, etc. It could be so fucking good.
Gotham by Gaslight, the vampire trilogy, the Lovecraft one, there's so much potential. And these films can stand alone, no shared universe bullshit.
Scorsese being involved... I don't even know what to think, lol. If it's like Spielberg with Transformers, no thanks. But I'm intrigued, I'll admit.
Elseworlds are a goldmine. They should absolutely go there. And the advantage with characters like Batman and Superman is that you don't need to explain shit, everybody will get it: it's Superman in Russia, it's Batman vs Jack the Ripper, etc. It could be so fucking good.
Gotham by Gaslight, the vampire trilogy, the Lovecraft one, there's so much potential. And these films can stand alone, no shared universe bullshit.
Part of the reason the MCU works so well is BECAUSE everything is connected.
Now you're going to have a cinematic universe but then have other movies not connected coming out at the same time? You're going to have this Joker and Leto Joker exist in the same theater space?
Shit is just going to overly confuse audiences.
Now you're going to have a cinematic universe but then have other movies not connected coming out at the same time? You're going to have this Joker and Leto Joker exist in the same theater space?
Shit is just going to overly confuse audiences.
Fill in those gaps with DC labels and Fantastic Beasts and Legos!
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
They already said Flashpoint isn't gonna reboot anything. It's not gonna be that type of movie.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
So both Variety and THR are like "The Scorsese bit is.... eh"
I bet it doesn't happen.
I bet it doesn't happen.
I never joke about comic fuckery
This is why I didn't fuck with (most) of the Elseworlds stuff.
Nemesis121
Member
No Jared? I am in...Jared SS Joker was horrible..
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
MCU has the entire TV universe they refuse to acknowledge.
It has it's good and bad
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Nah, you should. There are a few weird and shitty ones of course but the gems outweigh the garbage.
Violent_Shin
Member
Thank God.
You were expecting a giant-sized looping gif of JonTron's neckbearded racist melon-fucking-head lodging in the center of the page to make the thread weird?
That's entirely different. Those characters aren't also appearing in movies with different actors.
This would be like if Daredevil showed up in Infinity War played by Shia LaBeouf as a completely different character and then Cox is still playing him in the Netflix show.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Audiences aren't really that easily confused at all. Watching superhero movies isn't that hard. So long as they make internal sense for the 2 hours you're in front of one, it's pretty cake.
CrunchyFrog
Member
I thought Joker didn't have an origin story but was instead an immortal being or some bullshit?
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
This is gonna be Killing Joke lite.
Paquete_PT
Member
I'm all in for DC cinematic endeavors to brand out and extend out of the "comic book" cliches, the universe is much more fitting to that than Marvel's. That being said, Joker origins is something that I think that makes no sense for the character, Specially not an entire movie dedicated to that.
If we're going that way I want to see a movie with an elderly, experienced and overdone Batman and his relationship with Joker at that time, both finished in their own way. Get Nicholson to reprise his role as Joker and Mickey Rourke to play Batman. Find someone to play Nightwing or Robin
If we're going that way I want to see a movie with an elderly, experienced and overdone Batman and his relationship with Joker at that time, both finished in their own way. Get Nicholson to reprise his role as Joker and Mickey Rourke to play Batman. Find someone to play Nightwing or Robin