Jared Leto and Ben Affleck will meet face to face in a “Justice League” dream sequence.
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.”]
Jared Leto’s first official look as the Joker in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”, courtesy of Vanity Fair, was revealed. While Leto had his first chance as a Joker in David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad”, his appearance as Batman’s infamous villain for Snyder Court is very different. Gone are the tattoos that defined the Joker in “Suicide Squad”. Snyder’s Joker is seen with longer hair and wearing a hospital gown and surgical mask. The director told Vanity Fair that his Joker also wears a bulletproof vest with police badges that represent “his trophies”.
As for how Leto’s Joker is a factor in Snyder’s cut, Vanity Fair reveals: “Joker appears in the new film during a sequence set in a ruined Earth after the alien tyrant Darkseid invades and decimates the planet. It is a dream sequence, a psychic vision, lived by Bruce Wayne of Ben Affleck, which reveals what will happen if the superheroes fail to prevent the attack. Joker is a kind of Christmas ghost that is yet to come, providing motivation through terror. “
“The cool thing about the scene is that the Joker is talking directly to Batman about Batman,” Snyder told the magazine. “It’s the Joker analyzing Batman about who he is and what he is. That’s what I also felt the fans deserved from DC Universe. That is, Jared Leto Joker and Ben Affleck Batman, they never really met. It didn’t seem cool to me that we had made it all the way through this incarnation of Batman and Joker without seeing them coming together. “
According to Snyder, the Joker scene in “Justice League” will also answer a question that many DCEU fans had after “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” about why Bruce Wayne had a Joker card stuck to his weapon. . “Batman v Superman” implied that Joker killed Batman’s ex-partner Robin, whose story will be included in Joker’s dream sequence in the “Justice League”.
“I always wanted to explore Robin’s death,” Snyder told Vanity Fair. “And if there was ever going to be a next movie, which, of course, there probably won’t be, I wanted to do something in which in flashbacks we learn how Robin died, how Joker killed him and set Wayne Manor on fire, and all that stuff that happened between him and Bruce. “
“Justice League by Zack Snyder” is released on March 18 on HBO Max. Visit the Vanity Fair website to see more photos of Jared Leto as the Joker.
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