Jared Leto IS The Joker - Part 1

[Eddie Dean]

 

[regwec]

What an ass.

How fitting.

 

[Travesty]

He looks so stupid.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

He's still keeping the beard... Wonder if Ayer will go with that for a little while in the film? I still have this idea of a Joker, similar to TDKReturns Joker intro only slightly different.

Joker is basically living like a bum in "Any City, USA". He's gone into hibernation as it were since Batman's own activities have lessened. He just floats from day to day, eating garbage and getting drunk on the occasional bottle or two. Then, literally, he gets smacked in the face with a newspaper headline: "Other worldly Superman clashes with Gotham Vigilante on the streets of Metropolis." Immediately his eyes brighten, he laughs, looks around, finds someone that looks to be having sone cash on them, kills them, and a bit later we see him in a hotel room, his dirty bum clothing on the floor, he comes out of the bathroom now clean shaven, puts the final touches on his slick new wardrobe (a flower in the lapel, purple leather gloves, a trilby or fedora styled hat, lip stick ect.) then assess himself in the mirror... "Oooh... Batman, DARLING... Did you miss me that much that you have to play around with some other fool in a cape?"

 

[StarLord]

 

[Travesty]

I just hope they don't go with something like TDKR Joker. Does everything have to be a Miller version? Nolan's movies were heavily influenced, it looks like Snyder's Batman is, but does every goddamn character have to be like the one from Miller's TDKR?

 

[regwec]

Miller simplified things for the lowest common denominator, which is just what is also done in the movie " franchises" of our time. It is small wonder that WB venerates and imitates Miller.

 

[itsthebatman]

I always preferred the term 'The Great Unwashed', myself. Nothing against millers work ( and frankly, I find TDKR a fantastic synthesis of fifty years of Batmans history and also a highly personal love letter to the character) but there are other authors to draw upon as inspiration.

 

[regwec]

Hey, itsthebatman is back! Good times have returned.

 

[itsthebatman]

You're easily pleased old friend. So not impressed by this casting of the lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars as comics greatest villain?

 

[regwec]

I won't wager for or against. He looks fine, seems to be invested in the role, and may give us something approaching the classical Joker we have never quite seen on screen.

He does seem like a knob-end, though.

 

[StarLord]

Someone seen as being quite 'egomaniacal' is fitting IMO.

 

[itsthebatman]

Lovely turn of phrase, Reg.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

You're easily pleased old friend. So not impressed by this casting of the lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars as comics greatest villain?

Academy Award winning lead singer of 30 Seconds To Mars... Just saying, wierd or unlikeable as some find him in real life... Dude has a pedigree and has worked with some big name talent over the years. Plus... I kinda think a band's front man type energy dovetails nicely with a character like Joker. He needs swagger, as almost all versions so far on screen have that to one degree or the other.

 

[Boom]

He's still keeping the beard... Wonder if Ayer will go with that for a little while in the film? I still have this idea of a Joker, similar to TDKReturns Joker intro only slightly different.

Joker is basically living like a bum in "Any City, USA". He's gone into hibernation as it were since Batman's own activities have lessened. He just floats from day to day, eating garbage and getting drunk on the occasional bottle or two. Then, literally, he gets smacked in the face with a newspaper headline: "Other worldly Superman clashes with Gotham Vigilante on the streets of Metropolis." Immediately his eyes brighten, he laughs, looks around, finds someone that looks to be having sone cash on them, kills them, and a bit later we see him in a hotel room, his dirty bum clothing on the floor, he comes out of the bathroom now clean shaven, puts the final touches on his slick new wardrobe (a flower in the lapel, purple leather gloves, a trilby or fedora styled hat, lip stick ect.) then assess himself in the mirror... "Oooh... Batman, DARLING... Did you miss me that much that you have to play around with some other fool in a cape?"

They start shooting in April. I wouldn't worry too much. He could literally keep that thing until the day before production starts.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

They start shooting in April. I wouldn't worry too much. He could literally keep that thing until the day before production starts.

Oh, I ain't worried. In fact I wouldn't mind it a bit if he had it for a few sequences in the film, whether Joker is free at film's start or we get introduced to him first inside his cell. Just a little change up in expectations could add nice texture to the proceedings.

 

[StarLord]

Being a bearded fellow myself, I have no objections to Manson Joker at first.

Then when he's free, he could go get all dapper and fabulous looking.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Being a bearded fellow myself, I have no objections to Manson Joker at first.

Then when he's free, he could go get all dapper and fabulous looking.

More or less my thinking too.

 

[The Joker]

Being a bearded fellow myself, I have no objections to Manson Joker at first.

 

[StarLord]

Is that from Cacophony? Haven't read any of Smith's Batman.

 

[The Joker]

Yeah that's from Cacophany. The only time I've seen Joker with a beard.

 

[Sawyer]

Jesus, the pretentious comic nerds at the top half of this page.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Jesus, the pretentious comic nerds at the top half of this page.

I read said posts with the Kermit meme in my head.

I just hope they don't go with something like TDKR Joker. Does everything have to be a Miller version? Nolan's movies were heavily influenced, it looks like Snyder's Batman is, but does every goddamn character have to be like the one from Miller's TDKR?

Why not? The more Miller influence, the better.

 

[Schlosser85]

You're easily pleased old friend. So not impressed by this casting of the lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars as comics greatest villain?

You say that as if it's all he is, and he's not also an Oscar-winning actor who was a respected actor before he was the singer of 30 Seconds to Mars.

I don't worship Leto or anything, but come on. Let's not be disingenuous about it.

 

[Schlosser85]

I don't want a bearded Joker though.