The Weeknd becomes Jack Nicholson’s Joker for this year’s Halloween in an incredible set of images.
The images came from The Weeknd’s personal Twitter account that shows the singer posing as Jack Nicholson’s version of the Joker. The Weeknd is completely unrecognizable in the makeup which perfectly recreates Jack Nicholson’s Joker attire. The Weeknd even includes the eternal smile that Jack Nicholson’s Joker had in the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film.
You can see The Weeknd dressed up as Jack Nicholson’s Joker for Halloween below:
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/NSnh0piAEQ
— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) November 1, 2019
Jack Nicholson portrayed The Joker in the 1989 film, Batman. Directed by Tim Burton the film would go on to become the second highest-grossing film of the year and turned Tim Burton into a sought after blockbuster filmmaker. It was the only time Jack Nicholson would portray the Joker as the character died at the end of the film.
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Despite the death of Jack Nicholson’s version of The Joker, the character has continued to appear in live-action adaptations. The latest has been Joaquin Phoenix’s version of the character in the Todd Philips film, Joker. Here is the official synopsis for the film:
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.
Joker is now playing in theaters.
Source: Twitter
