When the unique DC adaptation Joker hits theaters later this year, it will indeed be with an R rating from the MPAA.
This one-off take on the iconic DC Comics villain was spearheaded by The Hangover and War Dogs filmmaker Todd Phillips, who pitched making a gritty, 70s-set Joker movie in the vein of Taxi Driver with a major movie star in the lead role.
He landed Joaquin Phoenix to play the Clown Prince of Crime, and indeed the film’s first trailer looks more like a Martin Scorsese movie than a comic book adaptation, with Phillips leaning …
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