Rotten Tomatoes has officially revealed the initial score for Joaquin Phoenix’s standalone Joker film.
The new Joker film from Todd Phillips features Joaquin Phoenix in the starring role as the titular Clown Prince of Crime. The film which has landed at 85% for its initial Rotten Tomatoes score has been praised for its masterful new take on the character in his first-ever origin story.
Joker follows Joaquin Phoenix as a failed comedian who later becomes The Joker in the film that taps into Martin Scorsese classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The King of Comedy as it dials back the clock, setting the film in a gritty and grounded 1980s Gotham City. Todd Phillips directed Joker from a script he co-wrote the script with Scott Silver (8 Mile).
The first reviews for #JokerMovie from the #VeniceFilmFestival have arrived – currently it's #Fresh at 85% on the #Tomatometer, with 20 reviews: https://t.co/776hD4HMxc pic.twitter.com/pZXWHs7UwG
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) August 31, 2019
Joker premiered at the Venice International Film Festival today ahead of its U.S. debut in Toronto. The highly-anticipated movie opens in theaters nationwide this October.
Here is the official synopsis for Joaquin Phoenix’s 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 fracturedsociety. 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.
Opening in theaters on October 4, 2019, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, Brett Cullen, Bryan Callen, and Robert De Niro. Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for more updates on the Joker movie!
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
