Zack Snyder has released a first look at Jared Leto’s Joker
Zack Snyder has released a first look at Jared Leto’s newly-reimagined Joker look for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, ahead of the film’s release next month.
“The cool thing about the scene is that it’s Joker talking directly to Batman about Batman,” Snyder explained. “It’s Joker analyzing Batman about who he is and what he is. That’s the thing I also felt like fans deserved from the DC Universe. That is to say, the Jared Leto Joker and the Ben Affleck Batman, they never really got together. It seemed uncool to me that we would make it all the way through this incarnation of Batman and Joker without seeing them come together.”
Snyder also reiterates something he has previously hinted at — that a future Zack Snyder DC movie could have centered on the psychological relationship between Batman and The Joker, and the fallout from Joker’s murder of Robin.
Snyder had completed an “assembly cut” of Justice League — a rough cut of the film that’s barely edited, but mostly just all the footage shot so far, strung together into an outrageously long version of the movie — when his daughter passed away. Shortly after that, the film was taken over by Marvel’s The Avengers director Joss Whedon, who slashed much of Snyder’s content and replaced it with reshoots that clashed wildly with Snyder’s footage in tone and look.
