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Ahead of the trailer launch online in a bit over twelve hours, Warner Bros. Pictures used its CinemaCon presentation to show off the first footage from director Todd Phillips’ “Joker” movie which screened to a very good response. Phillips was also on hand to say that while there has been a lot of talk about […]
The first footage of the film has received a positive response and the first teaser trailer will release later today. Director Todd Phillips says that the film is still taking shape and the genre type he would classify it as is 'tragedy'
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It looks decent but at the same time I'm getting the vibe that it really didn't need to be about the Joker and making it so... I don't know. It's currently a one off project so in light of the DCU it just feels counter intuitive to the rest of DC's output and its current direction. Not yet sure if making this will work out well for them in the grand scheme regardless of its quality.
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I won't lie, an origin story for Joker - especially one that detaches him from the Batman mythos - is a hard sell. The one potential concern from the trailer is that it paints his origins as being largely informed due to getting shoved around and because he loves his mummy too much. Hopefully there's much more to it as that would be an awful angle to take.
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Yeah, I was thinking Falling Down as well. It's only a first trailer but it just looks like a guy gets upset and takes it out on the world. And we get that enough in real life and I don't know if I need to see that without it being about the person who stops him. The connection with the Joker character seems tenuous but I don't really have an issue with that in itself but, if it the title wasn't Joker making some sort of Batman connection, I'm not sure this would be a film that many would go to see.
It does look arty though and old and those things in themselves are brave.
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