Everything You Need to Know About Joker Movie (2019): Dec. 10, 2022 - added the US DVD release date of January 7, 2020 - Movie Insider (original) (raw)

Who's Involved:

Robert De Niro, Joaquin Phoenix, Shea Whigham, Bruce Berman, Douglas Hodge, Todd Phillips, Bill Camp, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Marc Maron, Joseph Garner, Richard Baratta, Scott Silver, Michael Uslan, Glenn Fleshler, Brett Cullen, Josh Pais, Emma Koskoff, Dante Pereira-Olson

R Restricted MPA
Rating Reason: for strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and brief sexual images

Runtime: N/A

Language: English

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Contents:
Plot
Cast/Crew
Trailers
Production
Releases
Photos
Q / A

Plot: What's the story about?

Joker centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.

Official Synopsis

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Who stars in Joker: Cast List

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Production: What we know about Joker?

Key Facts

Robert De Niro would play a talk show host who is somehow instrumental in the Joker’s origin (Hollywood Reporter, 7/23/18).
Zazie Beetz would play a single mother who catches the interest of the man who becomes the Joker (Hollywood Reporter, 7/19/18).
The story will take place in the ’80s and have more of the look of a gritty crime drama (Variety, 7/8/18).
Martin Scorsese may produce in some capacity, but sources tell THR that his involvement is far from assured (Hollywood Reporter, 8/19/17).
Based on the DC Comics character created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson.

Filming Timeline

2019 - September: The film was set to Completed status.
2018 - November: The film was set to Post-Production status.
2018 - September: The film was set to Production status.
2018 - July: The film was set to Pre-Production status.

Expected to shoot fall 2018.
2018 - April: The film was set to Development status.
2017 - August: The film was set to Announced status.

Joker DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?

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Joker was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 .

Q&A Asked about Joker

Apr. 2, 2019

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