Warner Bros have confirmed that Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker move is going ahead and they’re making fans wait until 2019 to see it.
It is being directed by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, who was the scribe for 8 Mile, is co-writing with him.
The low budget movie will hit screens on October 4th 2019.
Warner Bros said the movie is an “exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.”
Phoenix came up with the idea for the budget film telling Collider, “Three or four years ago, I called my agent and said ‘Why don’t they want to take one of these characters and just make a lower budget film about it, a movie but a character study, and why not take one of the villains?’”
He continued, “And I thought, ‘You can’t do the Joker, because, you know, it’s just you can’t do that character, it’s just been done.’”
