On Sunday, we got a glimpse of what Joaquin Phoenix will look like as the Joker in Todd Phillips’ Joker, which as a reminder, has pretty much nothing to do with Jared Leto’s Joker. In that image, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker looked a lot like Joaquin Phoenix. The caption read “Arthur.”
When Quentin Tarantino coined the term “hangout movie,” he was describing one of the greatest Westerns ever made: Rio Bravo, Howard Hawks’ 1959 masterpiece, which kills most of its running time just laying low with a small-town sheriff and the motley posse he’s assembled to guard a jailhouse, eavesdropping on their…
Think back to April of 2015, when Suicide Squad director David Ayer first revealed what Jared Leto’s Joker would look like. Remember the abundance of “ha ha ha” tattoos? The one purple glove? The silver teeth? The word “damaged” stamped on his forehead? Well, prepare to meet the exact opposite of that image:
D.C. and Warner Bros. have made it clear that they’re not fucking around with this Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie anymore; the studio recently confirmed that the film was officially in the works, setting a release date of October 4, 2019 for it. Although it’s not clear how it’ll fit into the wider D.C. film universe, the…
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Gus Van Sant’s new biographical film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the story of cartoonist John Callahan, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21. Starring opposite Phoenix are Jonah Hill and Jack Black as…
Playing a quadriplegic represents a challenge for any able-bodied actor, but it must be particularly frustrating for someone like Joaquin Phoenix, who uses his body no less expressively than he does his face and voice. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot largely confines Phoenix to a motorized wheelchair, though…
Earlier this week, Warner Bros. risked incurring the wrath of Jared Leto by announcing that it was moving forward with an origin story about the Joker that will star Joaquin Phoenix as the Clown Prince Of Crime instead of Leto—who played a particularly damaged version of the character in Suicide Squad and is set to…
Gus Van Sant’s new biographical film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the story of cartoonist John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix), who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21. At the premiere of the film, Van Sant talked to The A.V. Club about…
In Gus Van Sant’s biopic Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, Joaquin Phoenix plays John Callahan, a cartoonist who became a quadriplegic after a drunken car accident and tries to give up drinking with the help of his friends, played by Rooney Mara, Jack Black, and Jonah Hill. If that sounds a little too…
Just in case you thought today’s news couldn’t get any funnier, The Hollywood Reporter is Hollywood reporting that Warner Bros. has officially given the proverbial green light to a movie about the Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix. This is a separate project from Jared Leto’s Joker movie, which got a green light of its…
Based on the memoir of the same name, Gus Van Sant’s new biographical film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot tells the story of cartoonist John Callahan, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21. Earlier this year, disability advocacy group Ruderman Family…
In Lynne Ramsay’s fragmentary, ferociously beautiful You Were Never Really Here, the great shape-shifter Joaquin Phoenix balloons his body into a fearsome new form: a bulkiness every bit as convincing and psychologically revealing as the bony odd angles of The Master’s Freddie Quell. “Intimidating” isn’t a word one…
Will Ferrell seems like kind of a weird guy, and Joaquin Phoenix seems like a completely different kind of weird guy, so Interview Magazine decided to get them on the phone together and have Ferrell conduct a weird interview with Phoenix. The end result is as wild as you’d expect, with Ferrell recognizing how odd…
Warner Bros. origin movie about the Joker, which has Martin Scorsese on board as a producer and Joaquin Phoenix supposedly in talks to star as the Clown Prince Of Crime himself, has always seemed like the kind of idea that’s too bizarre to ever actually happen. For one thing, Warner Bros. already has a guy set to play…
If you just couldn’t get enough of the stories about Jared Leto’s in-character harassment of his Suicide Squad castmates, then we have some good news for you: Another actor known for blurring the boundaries between life and art is being considered for a role as the Clown Prince of Crime. Variety reports that Joaquin…
To call Joaquin Phoenix one of our greatest living shape-shifters is to do more than acknowledge his range. It’s also a good way to describe the bold physicality of his transformations—how he twists his frame to accommodate the distinct corporeal presence of a scrawny cultist clinging to his sanity, a paunchy academic…
It’s been a while since Gus Van Sant both wrote and directed a film—since 2007’s Paranoid Park, in fact—and nearly as long since one has scored with either audiences or critics. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot aims to reverse that downward trend by returning to a favorite theme of friendships forged among the…
Early today, Pedro Almodóvar and his Cannes jury announced the winners at the film festival’s annual awards ceremony, but since it wouldn’t be the Cannes awards without some surprises, they threw in a couple of bonus awards just for fun. Specifically, Nicole Kidman was awarded a special prize simply for ubiquity, with…
Sunday is the final day of Cannes, but for yours truly, the festival ends in a couple hours, with a flight from Nice to New York. It’s been a great time: a blur of movies, hastily consumed lunches, leisurely consumed late-night dinners, long and scenic walks into town (and back), feverish debates while standing in…
