It feels like Warner Bros. has about a billionJokermovies in development right now, but the first one to make it out the gate will beTodd Phillips’ gritty origin story starringJoaquin Phoenix. Warner Bros. has scheduled the film to arrive on June 30, 2025 according toTHR.
Details on the movie are still scarce, and it remains to be seen if Warner Bros. will give anything more away when they have their big Hall H panel at Comic-Con on Saturday. The studio is usually tight-lipped on distant projects (one year forBatman v Supermanthey just hadBen Affleck,Gal Gadot, andHenry Cavillcome out and wave), and since they’ll be busy trying to promote other superhero movies, specificallyAquamanandShazam!, I imagine they won’t give away too much on stuff that comes out past July 2019. Got to save something for next year’s Comic-Con!
We don’t know much about the plot of the film. Phillips is co-writing the movie withScott Silver, and the logline is “an exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.” Remember kids, only you can avoid falling into a vat of chemicals because Batman didn’t save you, devolving into madness, and murdering scores of people. I hope the movie is just two hours of railing against ACE Chemicals.
Production on the Joker movie is set to begin later this year with a relatively low budget of $55 million, and the picture is described as a crime drama.When we recently spoke to Phoenixabout taking on the character, he told us:
“I take a lot of time and consideration when making decisions and what I’m gonna work on always. So, in some ways, the process, which is obviously reading a script and meeting a filmmaker and then continuing to have meetings and discussions with Todd [Phillips]. I think he’s very impressive and he seems to have a very interesting understanding of this world and what he’s trying to say. And so there is something very appealing about that and working with him on this particular project. It feels unique, it is its own world in some ways, and maybe, mostly, it scares the fucking shit out of me or something. It might as well be the thing that scares you the most.”
Right now, the only competition on the October 4th date is the sci-fi movieGemini Manand the thrillerThe Woman in the Window.
