Todd Philips Thinks His Joker Would Have a Somehow More Homoerotic View of Batman

The large committedness of Todd Phillips’ Joker was stripping retired the titular character’s comic publication elements and showing what would hap if a regular feline successful 1980s Gotham decided to enactment connected clown makeup. (Turns out, things didn’t spell well, chiefly for everyone other astir him.) A young Bruce Wayne is successful the archetypal movie, and you whitethorn beryllium wondering what would hap if an big Batman met this mentation of his nemesis. According to director/writer Todd Phillips, helium thinks Arthur Fleck would conscionable deliberation Batman’s neat. (You’re shocked, I’m sure.)

In a caller IGN interview, Phillips explained however Arthur would “be successful awe of the alpha antheral that is Batman. I deliberation [he’d] look up and admit it.” In his read, Arthur is “fascinated by men astatine ease,” specified arsenic his ain coworkers and Robert De Niro’s speech amusement big Murray Franklin from the archetypal movie. Those men are everything he’s not, and wherefore wouldn’t that widen to Batman? Presumably, this Batman knows Arthur’s liable for his parents’ murder, but possibly they tin determination past that.

The archetypal Joker ended with Arthur yet losing his chill truthful atrocious helium changeable Murray successful the look connected unrecorded TV, truthful that fascination intelligibly has a limit. Still, Phillips’ comments get astatine something, namely however Arthur has been precise speedy to autumn successful love, either romantically oregon platonically. But Warner Bros. is astir apt not funny successful making the decades of subtext betwixt Bats and Jokes into existent text, oregon astatine slightest nary much than what Lego Batman already did backmost successful 2017. Considering Arthur’s luck with radical helium crushes on, thing betwixt this Clown Prince and a Dark Knight aged capable to punch his look successful would apt extremity successful a atrocious romance.

Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters connected October 4.

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