Director of "Joker" unveils his first look at Joaquin Phoenix in makeup

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Joker Director Todd Phillips shared a short video with Joaquin Phoenix's "Arthur" Joker, in clown makeup and waving a mean smile.

You can check it above.

The film should be a Taxi driver-sque, autonomous, original story for the character, where he turns to a life of villain after failing as a comedian. Joker is produced by Martin Scorsese and will be performed by Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy and Marc Maron.

"I would not really like to classify this as a genre," Phoenix said in a recent interview. "I would not say it's a superhero movie, or a movie in the studio or a … It feels unique, and I think more than anything, And the most important thing is probably that Todd seems very passionate and very generous, and it's exciting.I think that, under the excitement of these films and their size, there are incredible characters who face real struggles. is discovered and exposed, and sometimes it is not, and I have always felt, for example, that there were comic characters that were really interesting and deserved to be studied, and so I think that's what Todd sees attractive about this idea. "

And it turns out that Phoenix had that kind of idea for a while.

"Three or four years ago, I called my agent and asked," Why do not they want to take one of these characters and make a low-budget movie, a movie but a character study? " ? the villains? "Phoenix revealed in a recent interview." And I thought: "You can not do the Joker, because, you know, it's just that you can not do this character, it's just done." think of other characters, and he said, "I'm going to hold a general meeting with Warner Bros." And I said, "I'm not going to go, I can not attend a meeting So I've completely forgotten about it and so I heard about this idea, I thought to myself, "Oh, it's so exciting, it's the kind of thing that's going on." experience I wanted to have, with a movie based on a comic character. " . "

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Joker should debut in theaters on October 4, 2019. The next DC Extended Universe films include Aquaman December 21st Shazam April 5, 2019, and Wonder Woman 2 November 1, 2019.