Matt Reeves not too long ago talked about Barry Keoghan’s model of Joker in his Batman universe and the way he can be completely different than earlier iterations of the character.
Keoghan’s Joker was launched in a deleted scene from 2022’s The Batman, which was directed by Reeves. We don’t know when Keoghan’s Joker will present up in The Batman Epic Crime Saga, however there are plans in place.
It was beforehand reported {that a} Joker restricted collection is within the works and that it might bridge the hole between The Batman Half II and Half III. James Gunn shortly debunked that report and stated “a Joker collection is just not being mentioned nor has even come up right now.”
Whereas we wait to see what the way forward for the Joker is in The Batman universe, Reeves instructed The Hollywood Reporter that they’re engaged on ensuring this model of the character can be completely different than earlier variations.
He stated: “Anytime you’re going to method any of those characters, it’s a must to discover a contemporary option to do it. In order that makes it extremely daunting. On the similar time, this model of Penguin is a model of Penguin that nobody had ever seen.
“The one option to do it’s to really feel such as you’re incomes your house as a result of in any other case you’re simply doing extra, and individuals are going like, ‘Nicely, we’ve seen it, so what do you bought for us?’ So how can or not it’s the factor we love, but in addition one thing we haven’t seen?
“That’s all the time the problem. So with a personality like that, that must be the bar.”
Reeves beforehand talked about the look of the Joker, saying: “He is held on this very suspenseful means, away from you visually. However I wished to create an iteration of him that felt distinctive and new, however went proper again to the roots. So he is very a lot out of the Conrad Veidt mildew and that concept of the silent movie of The Man Who Laughs.”
The filmmaker wished this model of The Joker to be based mostly on a child born with a situation by which he by no means stopped smiling. He stated, “It’s not about some model the place he falls right into a vat of chemical compounds and his face is distorted, or what [Christopher] Nolan did, the place there’s some thriller to how he bought these scars carved into his face.
“What if this man from delivery had this illness and he was cursed? He had this smile that individuals stared at that was grotesque and terrifying. Whilst a baby, individuals checked out him with horror, and his response was to say, ‘Okay, so a joke was performed on me,’ and this was his nihilistic tackle the world.”
He expanded on this and likened the character to The Elephant Man. He says: “He can by no means cease smiling. And it made Mike [Marino] and I take into consideration — I used to be speaking about The Elephant Man as a result of I like David Lynch.
“And I used to be like, ‘Nicely, perhaps there’s one thing right here the place it is not one thing the place he fell in a vat of chemical compounds or it is not the [Christopher] Nolan factor the place he has these scars and we do not know the place they got here from.
“What if that is one thing that he is been touched by from delivery and that he has a congenital illness that refuses to let him cease smiling? And he is had this very darkish response to it, and he is needed to spend a lifetime of individuals him in a sure means and he is aware of the right way to get into your head.'”
Reeves additionally explains: “Life has been a merciless joke on him. And that is his response, and he is ultimately going to declare himself as a clown, declare himself because the Joker. That was the concept.”
The Batman Half II is presently scheduled to be launched in theaters on October 2, 2026. We don’t know if The Joker will present up in that, however followers are hoping he’ll.