Jared Leto Fails To Read The Room, Announces New Joker Film
Everyone is justifiably roasting the announcement.
In news that only Jared Leto wants, Jared Leto is set to reprise his role as The Joker in a new Suicide Squad spin-off.
As Variety reports, Leto will star in and executive produce the film, which is part of DC’s plan to expand its own universe to catch up with Marvel’s successes. Not a lot of details are known yet, such as where it’ll sit with Suicide Squad 2, which is still in pre-production — but what we do know is already a bit of a mess.
In case you need reminding, Leto’s role in Suicide Squad was panned. Pre-release, it was revealed the actor went method to explore the darkest sides of the Batman villain, in the vein of Heath Ledger. Apparently, this required Leto to send his fellow actors a pig’s head and used condoms, among other things.
Then, when the film came out, Leto’s character had been more-or-less edited out of it. The Joker appeared on-screen for seven minutes — and the seven minutes he did appear weren’t great.
In our own review, we called Leto “coldly lecherous and uncharismatic”, which is still kinder than the roasting currently underway on Twitter.
Wow, there’s already a script for the Jared Leto Joker movie. It’s pretty twisted! pic.twitter.com/aCj6TY6iqc
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) June 5, 2018
Oh boy, a standalone Joker movie….based off the Suicide Squad version of the Joker. It'll be a good year for the clearance bin at Hot Topic when that gets released
— AlphaOmegaSin (@AlphaOmegaSin) June 6, 2018
It's gonna be awkward when they make a Joker movie with Jared Leto and all his scenes get cut anyway
— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) June 5, 2018
why would I pay to see a Jared Leto Joker movie when I can log onto twitter. search hashtag boycottstarwars, and witness a bunch of edgy middle aged clowns for FREE?
— llewyn ? (@aIexgarland) June 5, 2018
Then there’s the confusing fact that DC announced a different Joker film last year. It was presented as an origin story that would star Joaquin Phoenix. If that seems confusing, DC views the two as separate — the Phoenix film is part of an ‘origin universe’ series that would see different actors play the same roles at the same time.
so Warner Bros is doing a Joker movie connected to the DCEU starring Leto and a one-off non-franchise Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix. Hmmmm I wonder which one will be better lol.
— zak (@ZakKondratenko) June 5, 2018
Then again, DC isn’t exactly known for making sensible decisions.
JUSTICE LEAGUE EXEC: We can just CGI Henry Cavill’s mustache out it will be fine and not look weird at all
HENRY CAVILL: pic.twitter.com/Ag41j6LbPn— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) November 17, 2017