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Joaquin Phoenix is reportedly in talks to play the Joker in director Todd Phillips’ untitled origin story of the villain.
Sources told Variety that Phoenix has already committed to the role.
Phoenix’s supposed new Joker character is not to be confused with the Joker Jared Leto made famous in the DC comic’s flick, “Suicide Squad.” According to Variety, Phillips’ movie would fall under “a yet-to-be-announced new banner of DC Comics,” completely separate from the current DC comic stories, leaving Leto to reprise his Joker in the upcoming “Suicide Squad 2.”.
The Joker character was made most famous by Heath Ledger’s portrayal in the Christopher Nolan’s, “The Dark Knight.”
According to Variety, in the past, the actor was considered for the role of Lex Luthor in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” as well as another role in Disney-Marvel’s “Doctor Strange.” But Phoenix passed on both projects.
Phoenix currently stars in the 2018 flick “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.”.