r/TheBatmanFilm

When the dark knight did the messier joker look, with the scars, it was very cool, and is still very cool, because we had not seen it before. But now it has been 36 years since we have seen the clean cut classic joker in live action, and I want that joker to be done again.

The thing about jokers look, is that it completely fits in any universe, no matter how grounded, or how fantastical, I mean, its a clown, clowns exist in real life. And also, let him be loud, let him be zany. The great thing about the joker is the dark humor.

Mark hamills joker should be the blueprint, not heaths. Nolan and heath absolutely cooked and made an absolutely perfect joker with their own unique spin on the character, but that's something only those 2 working in tandem could pull off imo. So what we have gotten is now 4 directors (if you include reeves brief take on the character) who have tried to do their own, typically grounded, spin on the joker and its just doesnt hold a candle to heath and Nolan. And they have strayed so far from the classic joker at this point I dont even feel like im watching the same character. Heaths look, tone, and voice was a big shift, but it was still clearly the joker. intelligent, quick witted, very funny, cruel. Everything you need.

Essentially, im saying that if doing what is harder (making your own "new and creative" spin on the joker) is not working out, and it hasn't since 2008. Then follow the blueprint that was made by the comics, jack Nicholson, and specifically mark Hamill instead. Also i will say I love the first pheonix joker movie. I think its a great movie and a great performance, but holy crap is that character not the joker in any way shape or form

Title: The Scarecrow

Genre: Psychological Horror, Ambient Horror, Environmental Horror

Inspirations: The Night House, Jacob’s Ladder, Oculus, Bedlam

Top Cast ideas for Scarecrow: Jackie Earl Haley, Adam Driver, Rami Malek

Story: Jonathan Crane works at Arkham State Hospital, and he operates over the many unethical experiments and treatments in the restricted wing at Arkham. Then he gets a demented idea. His patients he treats gets visitors every once in awhile. He decides to learn about each visitor and then follow them and stalk them, and at a random night, he enters their home as a Scarecrow, sprays gas on them. then when they wake up they start seeing their worst fears imaginable, very vivid. Eventually they get so bad they have to be transferred to Arkham, so Crane gets more patients to treat. A vicious cycle that leads to an overcrowded Arkham.