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Zack Snyder Teases the New Look for Jared Leto’s Joker in the Upcoming Snyder Cut of ‘Justice League’
As we learned last month, Jared Leto‘s version of the Joker from Suicide Squad will be making a return in the upcoming “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, which is currently being put together for a premiere on HBO Max in 2021. In addition to resurrecting lots of unused footage, Zack Snyder is also shooting brand new scenes, which is how Joker will be brought in.
Speaking with Grace Randolph for Beyond the Trailer, Snyder just teased a brand new look for Leto’s Joker, while also touching upon just how much new footage is being shot.
“I wanted to, of course, honor what had been created with him because I thought it was really cool, but I also felt like – well, I’m not gonna tell you what happens in the little scene – but there is… some water has gone under the proverbial bridge between last we saw Joker and this appearance,” says Snyder. “He’s a road-weary Joker, I guess that’s a way of saying it.”
Snyder continues, “I will say that [Leto] was really gracious with his entertaining my idea and I told him it was a thing that I had felt like, even when I was working on Justice League in London, I felt like was an inevitable course that the movie had to take. So when I told him it was a thing that I’d been kicking around in my head for quite a while I feel like he just kind of warmed up to this idea that it was kind of an inevitable thing that kind of has to happen. I am grateful and I am forever in debt to his kindness for doing it.”
This brand new four-hour version of Justice League will feature “4 or 5 minutes” of newly shot footage, Snyder also noted during the new interview with Beyond the Trailer. Meaning 4 or 5 minutes of footage that was shot during this latest round of additional photography, on top of all the previous footage Snyder shot for Justice League that we’ve never seen.
Watch the full 30-minute interview below.
The “Snyder Cut,” which Warner Bros. is spending tens of millions of dollars on, is said to be quite a bit different and a whole lot darker, with Darkseid notably featured in the movie.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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