Changes: Joker (film)

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Joker is an upcoming film loosely based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The movie is not part of the current DC Films Universe, but will be the first film DC Black, considered a standalone piece by Warner Bros. while other familiar Gotham City characters are present.

Plot

Failed comedian Arthur Fleck encounters violent thugs while wandering the streets of Gotham City dressed as a clown. Disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow dissent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as "Joker."

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck / Joker
Robert DeNiro as Murray Franklin
Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond
Frances Conroy as Penny Fleck
Brett Cullen as Thomas Wayne
Marc Maron as Ted Macro^[1]^[2]
Glenn Fleshler as a comedian
Bryan Callen as an aging stripper
Bill Camp as a Gotham City Police Department cop
Shea Whigham as a Gotham City Police Department cop
Josh Pais
Dante Pereira-Olson as Bruce Wayne
Douglas Hodge as Alfred Pennyworth
Brian Tyree Henry

Production

On July 10th of 2018, it was announced that Martin Scorsese would no longer be producing the film.^[3] On August 27th of 2018 it was announced that Alec Baldwin would be playing Thomas Wayne in the movie as a "cheesy and tanned businessman who is more in the mold of a 1980s Donald Trump."^[4] Two days later Baldwin told USA Today that he was no longer involved, claiming "scheduling conflicts."^[5] Brett Cullen was his replacement.