JOKER Director Todd Phillips Says Joaquin Phoenix's Joker Would Be in Awe of Batman

Bruce Wayne has not taken connected nan mantle of Batman successful Gotham City successful nan Joker franchise, but head and co-writer Todd Phillips precocious talked astir what Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck would deliberation astir nan Dark Knight if he was moving astir taking down criminals successful Gotham.

Phillips says that Joker would respect Batman, telling IGN: “I deliberation Arthur would beryllium successful awe of nan alpha antheral that is Batman. I really do. I deliberation Arthur would look up and admit it. I deliberation he'd beryllium successful awe of that.”

The filmmaker went connected to explicate why Joker would beryllium awestruck by nan costumed vigilante, saying: “I deliberation Arthur ever had a fascination pinch men astatine ease, and he is not a man astatine ease.

“[Robert De Niro’s] Murray Franklin successful nan first movie was a man astatine ease. He astir apt saw nan guys he worked pinch arsenic men astatine ease, and that was nan 1 point that Arthur could ne'er beryllium was a man astatine ease.”

Now, Phillips has nary plans to make a 3rd Joker movie, but he antecedently thought astir what nan Caped Crusader’s spot would beryllium successful nan Gotham City he created for Joker.

He said: “It'd beryllium absorbing to spot personification do a Batman movie successful this vein that follows that feline 10 years later aliases whatever. If he's 12 aliases 11 location and okay 15 years later becoming Batman successful that world. Yeah, I deliberation that'd beryllium really interesting.”

I don’t deliberation we’ll ever spot that happen, but it is thing absorbing to deliberation astir because this is simply a very different type of Gotham and these DC characters than we’ve ever seen before.