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“You think this is funny?!” Watch the final trailer for Joker

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Standup comedian/actor Marc Maron (GLOW) got the comic book geek portion of the internet all riled up in the last week after calling Marvel movie fans “grown male nerdchilds” who force him to have to go out of his way “to see a grown-up movie with other grown-ups where we can all sit together and not understand the ending”. Taking flack from those “nerdchilds”, Maron then doubled down on Twitter to tell Marvel movie fans to “Stop acting like outraged religious fanatics defending their belief system.” And you know what? He’s right.

As Maron himself states, with the dominance of Marvel internationally, comic book geeks “are in charge of culture”. We’ve won. We don’t need everybody to be a “believer,” as Maron points out. People can like what they like.

Of course, there’s a reason why I’m mentioning all of this here, because there’s a huge truckload of irony in play. See all of this sprang out of an interview Maron did with Conan O’Brien all about the fact that he’ll soon be seen on screen in Joker, director Todd Phillips’ revisionist feature film take on the iconic DC Comics villain. That would make Maron a huge hypocrite, which he readily admits, but as he points out though, Joker is not a normal comic book movie.

Besides for the cast, led by Joaquin Phoenix seemingly acting on another plane of existence (and which also stars Robert De Niro, who Maron really wanted to work with, hence signing up for this), Phillips is crafting something here the likes of which we’ve never seen. When Black Panther started getting serious awards recognition based almost purely on it pop culture weight, many of us disagreed despite how much we loved that movie. This though? Based on what we’ve seen so far, this could very much be a legitimate contender. Will this be Maron’s type of movie, which we can watch with other adults and understand the ending together? After watching the heavily unsettling final trailer for the film that dropped last night, I’m starting to think that it very well might be, and I – a grown male nerdchild – cannot be more excited for it.

Check out the trailer below.

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.

Besides for Phoenix, Maron, and De Niro, Joker also stars Zazie Beets, Shea Whigham, Frances Conroy, Bill Camp, Brian Tyree Henry and Glenn Fleshler. Phillips also co-wrote the script with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Scott Silver (The Fighter, 8 Mile). We’ll get to hear just how well they’ve executed their unexpected vision of this classic comic book character this coming weekend when Joker makes its international debut at the Venice Film Festival. It will then hit both the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival to screen for more industry pundit, before it hits cinemas for the rest of us from 4 October.

Last Updated: August 29, 2019

13 Comments

  1. Well, that was quite the trailer. This might just be the perfect foundation for an overhaul of the Batman Universe.

    Once again, DC go back to their dark roots. Not to say it’s a bad thing, but they just better make sure there is some substance to it all.

    You almost want to cheer for the Joker in this movie when you see how crappy his life was before he grew some, and became the full-blown Joker!

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  2. LegionZA

    August 29, 2019 at 09:28

    This will be good, but still not sure if it should’ve been a comic book movie or a proper standalone movie. No ties to anything, just a movie of how a guy gets driven past his limits, that breaking point to insanity.

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    • Admiral Chief Emissary

      August 29, 2019 at 09:34

      Agreed

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    • G8crasha

      August 29, 2019 at 09:43

      The question I ask is can Batman exist without the Joker, and vice versa. The two characters are so intertwined, more than many other Superhero/Supervillian relationships.

      If one says they could exist without each other, then yeah, this could be a standalone movie. Personally, their relationship between the Joker and Batman is so powerful, you could never understand the one without understanding the other. They are almost complete polar opposites. The only similarity I see between them possibly, is their relationships with their parents (in the Joker’s case, it seems to be only his mother with whom he had a strong relationship).

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      • Admiral Chief Emissary

        August 29, 2019 at 10:00

        Heath Ledger’s Joker speech comes to mind

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      • LegionZA

        August 29, 2019 at 10:20

        They cannot exist without the other, correct. But they could’ve called it anything really, even just Arthur, and it would still be great to watch. The tie-in to DC, part of Batman’s world, not sure they really needed it though.

        And I would prefer not having a Joker origin anyway, I like him having a multiple choice origin, remembering it one way or another, whatever he feels like at the moment.

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        • Dresden

          August 29, 2019 at 10:37

          I enjoy the fact that it’s based on The Joker.
          The fact that it doesn’t tie in to the DC universe directly gives it the freedom to do whatever it wants.

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  3. Admiral Chief Emissary

    August 29, 2019 at 09:28

  4. CrAiGiSh

    August 29, 2019 at 11:36

    Was skeptical of this movie at first but with each trailer it has gotten better and better.

    Really keen to see this now.

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  5. G8crasha

    August 29, 2019 at 09:23

    Well, that was quite the trailer. This might just be the perfect foundation for an overhaul of the Batman Universe.

    Once again, DC go back to their dark roots. Not to say it’s a bad thing, but they just better make sure there is some substance to it all.

    You almost want to cheer for the Joker in this movie when you see how crappy his life was before he grew some, and became the full-blown Joker!

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  6. Dresden

    August 29, 2019 at 09:23

    “It’s time to send in the clowns!” – my excitement is palpable!

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  7. Kikmi

    August 29, 2019 at 11:19

    yeah im keen

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