{"id":54780,"date":"2025-10-04T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/54780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:03:16","slug":"this-mcu-villain-wants-to-play-joker-in-james-gunns-dcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/54780\/","title":{"rendered":"This MCU Villain Wants to Play Joker in James Gunn’s DCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Joker must be one of the most delicious characters to play in live-action cinema. Gotham\u2019s clown prince of crime is the bane of Batman\u2019s existence, and his most iconic foe. Heath Ledger<\/a> redefined being the agent of chaos in Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Dark Knight<\/a>, winning a posthumous Oscar. Then Joaquin Phoenix brought another side of the character to celluloid with his Oscar-winning performance in 2019\u2019s Joker<\/a>. So, now fans are eagerly awaiting to see who will play the Joker in James Gunn<\/a>\u2019s DCU, and there\u2019s one MCU villain who\u2019d like to give it a try.<\/p>\n

Gunn\u2019s frequent collaborator, Chukwudi Iwuji<\/a>, who played a cold and mean High Evolutionary in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, recently spoke to The Movie Dweeb about his desire to play the iconic character in Gunn\u2019s DCU. \u201cThere has to be something maniacal about the Joker, right? But \u2018maniacal\u2019 has such a huge range,\u201d the actor shared the insight about how he\u2019d approach the character. He noted Ledger\u2019s performance and revealed that what \u201cmoved me most was when you realize that he keeps making up a story about his father each time.” He continued:<\/p>\n

“And when I asked myself, \u2018Well, why would you do that?\u2019 Again, that loneliness and that he\u2019s covering up with this flamboyant thing, but he keeps making up a story about his father.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further noted that he\u2019d like to \u201cground\u201d the character. Adding, \u201cI just feel there\u2019s so much richness about sadness with the Joker. And when you\u2019re so laser-focused on your inner turmoil, the things you could do to other people without even it counting is very scary.\u201d Iwuji certainly has what it takes to deliver a good villain; his performance in GoTG Vol 3 made many people very angry in the context of the movie, and the heroes\u2019 win feels more special thanks to the formidable villain that High Evolutionary was<\/a>. However, what happens in Gunn\u2019s DC Universe remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

DCU’s Elseworlds Joker Awaits<\/p>\n

Speaking of Joker, fans are yet to see Barry Keoghan\u2019s portrayal<\/a> in Matt Reeves\u2019 The Batman franchise. Reeves\u2019 movie falls under Elseworld stories in the DCU and is darker and grittier in nature. Keoghan was introduced as Joker to fans in a deleted scene, sharing screen space with Paul Dano\u2019s Riddler in Arkham Asylum. Since then, fans have been eager to see his version of the character. Whether The Batman II features more of him or not remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, you can check out Ledger and Phoenix\u2019s respective performances in The Dark Knight and Joker on HBO Max. Check out Iwuji\u2019s comments above and stay tuned to Collider for more such updates.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 3, 2023<\/p>\n

Runtime<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t150 minutes<\/p>\n

Director<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Gunn<\/p>\n

Producers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKevin Feige<\/a>, Louis D’Esposito, Nik Korda, Victoria Alonso, Simon Hatt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Joker must be one of the most delicious characters to play in live-action cinema. Gotham\u2019s clown prince…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-54780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}