While we’ve shared loads of images and footage from the upcoming Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix (here, here and here) we thought we’d share this one in particular because the think it may be a key moment in the movie.
In Alan Moore and Bryan Bolland’s definitive Joker original tale, The Killing Joke, we meet Joker as a failed comedian who has a pregnant wife and, in an attempt to make some money he agrees to aid two hoods break into Ace Chemicals however, on the night the heist is meant to go down he gets news that is wife has been electrocuted and is dead and he wants to cancel the job but the hoods, being hoods, won’t allow him to.
It’s this job that leads to comics’ greatest villain being born:
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So, what if, in the leaked footage below, we’re seeing the character being told of his wife’s death or the death of someone he loves deeply which leads to him breaking and beaming Joker?
Let s know your thoughts…
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