Avengers: Endgame star Bradley Cooper has revealed why he produced the Todd Phillips-directed Joker movie for DC Films.
In “Joker: Vision and Fury“, a special feature for the DC Films movie Joker, producer Bradley Cooper explained what drew him to the produce the project after previously being involved with Todd Phillips’s War Dogs. Bradley Cooper explained that, after looking at storyboards for the Joker’s violent actions at the subway, he was hooked on the idea and helped push to make it happen.
You can read Bradley Cooper’s comments about Joker and director Todd Phillips:
“To take, probably, the most famous two-dimensional villain who we’ve watched just wreak havoc in so many forms — whether it’s the comic book, a television series, or various films — to say, ‘Okay, what happens if we humanize this person? And let’s see what could be the possible causes. And his willingness to just go outside of any boundary and tell the story that he wants to tell, it’s very hard to put him in a box. I mean, the first thing he did was a documentary about GG Allin. And I think once you become notable as a comedic director, a lot of people definitely see you as just that. But I’ve always known he’s an auteur.”
While DC Films were initially unsure about producing the film with Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips, the gamble paid off and the movie managed to become the first R-rated film to make $1 billion globally, all without China. That’s pretty impressive for a character study film that’s light on action, and all things considered, it’s miraculous that it did so well.
Here is the official synopsis for Joker:
Director Todd Phillips’ Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham. The DC Films movie is not part of the DC Extended Universe, and seems to play into Warner Bros.’s interests of making creator-driven superhero movies over necessarily building a hyper-connected shared universe… At least for the time being.
Joker is still playing in theaters and is currently available to watch on digital formats. The movie will see a release on Blu-Ray and DVD on January 7, 2020.
Source: ComicBook.com
