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Young Bruce Wayne and Alfred Will Appear In ‘Joker’!
In a surprise addition to the cast, Dante Pereira-Olson is joining Warner Bros. Joker as young Bruce Wayne, THR confirmed via Comicbook.com. Also notable: Douglas Hodge (“Black Mirror”) will play butler Alfred Pennyworth!
Todd Phillips is directing Joker and has been teasing looks at his leading man as the DC supervillain.
The Joker cast also includes Robert De Niro, Deadpool 2‘s Zazie Beetz and “Glow” actor Marc Maron. Wayne family patriarch Thomas Wayne had already been cast, with Brett Cullen stepping into the role after Alec Baldwin dropped out.
Joker has been described as the “exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.” Phillips co-wrote the script with Scott Silver.
Joker hits theaters Oct. 4, 2019.
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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