By now, most of you reading this article have seen the final trailer for Todd Phillips’ Joker which was released earlier today. And if you’ve seen the trailer you, like me and I assume many others are thinking this is neither a normal take on the Joker nor a usual film based off of a comic book character.

Apparently bringing this version of the Clown Prince of Crime to the big screen wasn’t easy for Phillips, who recently told the LA Times of his struggles during a year-long process getting the film the go-ahead. You can check out what he had to say below.

““It was a year-long process from when we finished the script just to get the new people on board with this vision, because I pitched it to an entirely different team than made it. There were emails about: ‘You realize we sell Joker pajamas at Target.’ There were a zillion hurdles, and you just sort of had to navigate those one at a time…. At the time I would curse them in my head every day. But then I have to put it in perspective and go, ‘They’re pretty bold that they did this.’”

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Surely DC is going to be very protective of one of their most famous characters, especially when they’re just beginning to turn things around as far as the DCEU, but like Phillips said above, it’s pretty cool that they were open enough to give this odd little study film a shot.

From the trailers, it’s definitely going to be a different kind of Joker. I plan to go into the film expecting only one thing, a great performance from Joaquin Phoenix. As far as Joker lore and history, most of us know that Phillips said in an interview they didn’t use the comic books at all, so I’m just going to sit back and let them tell me a story, a tale of a comedian who lost his marbles, found them again, and started to play with them.

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Source: LA Times

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