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Warner Sets Oct. 2019 Date for ‘Joker’, Starring Joaquin Phoenix
Warner Bros. Pictures is going with a near-Halloween release for Joker, which features Joaquin Phoenix in the title role. Director Todd Phillips‘ standalone Joker origin story will hit theaters on Oct. 4, 2019, says THR.
Shooting on the “dark” and “experimental” crime drama set to begin in New York this coming September. The studio describes it as being “an exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.”
Scott Silver co-wrote the script. Emma Tillinger Koskoff (The Wolf of Wall Street) is producing, with Richard Baratta on board as an executive producer.
It was reported earlier this month that Warner Bros. is moving forward with plans to bring Jared Leto‘s interpretation of the Joker back to the big screen. Leto became the latest to wear the makeup in 2016’s Suicide Squad, although Margot Robbie‘s Harley Quinn stole the show. Leto is set to star and exec produce an untitled standalone film, paving the way for future movies branching from Suicide Squad. Warner Bros. already announced that Robbie’s Harley Quinn would be getting her own movie with a Birds of Prey feature.
The DC Universe is heading down an exciting new road after the collapse of the Snyder-verse.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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