Deadpool 2 Star Zazie Beetz is in talks to join the cast of the Joker Origin Movie, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince of Crime. It was recently announced that the official title for the movie will be Joker and the official release date is October 4th, 2019. Since the official release date is so soon, it looks like the initial reports about a production start in September are pretty accurate, though nothing has been confirmed at this time.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Beetz, who broke out playing the character of Van on Donald Glover’s FX series Atlanta, is now in talks to join Joker, WB’s standalone movie about the origins of Gotham City’s Clown Prince of Crime. Details about the film are still largely being kept under wraps.
Zazie Beetz is said to be in talks to play a single mother who catches the attention of the Joker prior to his transformation into the nihilistic Gotham City villain. In Moore’s version of the Joker’s origins, the villain was an unnamed failed comedian who struggles to make ends meet for his pregnant wife. When his wife is killed in a freak accident and a robbery he is forced to take part in disfigures his face, the comedian snaps, becoming the infamous Joker.
Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow will co-produce the film, with Todd Phillips directing. Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Richard Baratta are attached as producers. The film will be released on October 4, 2019, with production set to begin in New York in September.
Beetz is also set to star in Season 3 of the hit FX show Atlanta as well as Steven Soderbergh’s next film, High Flying Bird.
Source: THR
