MOVIE NEWS – The new movie will explain the origins of the archenemy of Batman will be the story that will tell the new Warner Bros. movie.

The deal is already signed between Warner Bros and Joaquin Phoenix. The Gladiator actor and winner of the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 by You Were Never Really Here, has accepted the proposal to be the protagonist of the film that will tell the origins of the Joker and the reasons that led him to become the enemy of Batman. This is the end of the rumors that pointed to Leonardo Di Caprio as the protagonist.

Led by the director of Todd Phillips (The Hangover) and with Scott Silver as co-writer, the film will be shot from September this year in New York and is expected to finish by 2019 at a budget of approximately 46 million euros. Next week at Comic Con de San Diego will be given more details about it.

Despite the filming of this feature film, actor Jared Leto, who starred in the Suicide Squad Joker, will continue to give life to the villain in the DC universe, since, as claimed by the publisher, the Phillips movie is independent and has no relationship with the character that Leto plays. Phoenix, known for films like Gladiator, would become the fifth actor to get into the costume of the mythical comic book character.

The film, of which the title is not yet known, will be produced by Martin Scorsese (director of One of Ours, Infiltrados or Taxi Driver, among others) and co-written by Phillips (Resacón en las Vegas) and Scott Silver (8 Mile) ). The story, set in the city of Gotham in the eighties, deals with the origins of the so-called Prince of the Crimes and will be inspired by Scorsese’s mafia films. DC, publisher with the rights of the character, has never presented an official origin of the character.

One of the most famous accounts of the creation of the Joker appears in the work of the writer Alan Moore The Murderous Joke (1988), based on a previous story of 1951 Bill Finger. In it, a laboratory assistant with the dream of being a clown helps some criminals to steal in the company where he works and, after being discovered by Batman, falls into a pipe with toxic waste. Upon leaving, the color of his skin, lips and mouth have changed, giving him the appearance of a clown.