Calm Down Batman Fans! JOKER Director Was Misquoted & Sets the Record Straight
Josh Millican
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Batman fans have been fuming online after an interview with Joker director Todd Phillips appeared in Empire Magazine, specifically the filmmakers assertion that he didn’t pull anything from the source material. Hold the phone, y’all! Phillips says he was misquoted and wants to set the record straight. Here’s what he told our friends at Heroic Hollywood.
“It’s funny because a lot of you guys have probably reprinted something I said in Empire where I was misquoted. I’m not gonna complain, I like the writer; he wrote a great piece where I said we didn’t take anything from the comic book world. It’s actually not what I said. What I said was we didn’t take anything from one particular comic. We kind of picked and chose what we liked from the kind of 80-year canon of Joker. We kind of pulled a few things that we liked.”
Synopsis:
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck encounters violent thugs while
wandering the streets of Gotham City dressed as a clown. Disregarded by
society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the
criminal mastermind known as the Joker.
Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, and Zazie Beetz.
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