Martin Scorsese admitted that he doesn’t want to watch Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker after previously passing on producing the movie for Warner Brothers.
After Martin Scorsese made headlines months ago for criticizing Marvel movies, he’s also explained that he doesn’t intend to watch Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker after passing on the offer of producing the picture for Warner Bros. Pictures. While Joker isn’t a stereotypical comic book blockbuster, it shouldn’t be surprising that Martin Scorsese doesn’t want to watch the film after all the numerous headlines and discussion about his stance on comic book movies.
In an interview with the New York Times after release of The Irishman, Martin Scorsese was asked whether he’d watched Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker. The director explained that he’d seen clips of the movie and doesn’t feel like he needs to see the rest. Considering Joker has had plenty of Oscar buzz around it since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Martin Scorsese’s comments about the film are quite dismissive. Take a look at Martin Scorsese’s opinion on Joker below.
“I saw clips of it. I know it. So it’s like, why do I need to? I get it. It’s fine.”
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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: New York Times