![]() There are all these iterations of the Joker – there's the classic version where he fell into a vat of chemicals, there's what Nolan did with the knife scars. "So what Mike Marino and I talked about was kind of like the Elephant Man. ![]() "I wanted this version of the character to go all the way back to the original Bob Kane/Bill Finger inspiration, which is Conrad Veidt in the silent film, The Man Who Laughs, which is like a Phantom of the Opera story and his face is locked in a permanent smile because he has this kind of degenerative disease. "Here we have a version of this character who is not yet the Joker but is going to become the Joker and I wanted Batman to have had an experience with him that put him in Arkham," Reeves explained. this week and makes clear what Reeves had in mind when he developed the idea for Keoghan's Joker, along with the film's prosthetic and makeup artist Mike Marino. Viewers only get a glimpse of an early version of the Joker towards the very end of the recently released The Batman, when the character speaks to the more-prominently featured Riddler between the doors of their cells in Arkham Asylum.Ī scene showing more of Keoghan's Joker was cut from the movie but was released in the weeks following the arrival of the first instalment in Reeves' Batman series.Ī director's cut version of that very scene was released by Warner Bros. The Batman director Matt Reeves has outlined his thought process when coming up with how to portray Barry Keoghan's version of iconic supervillain, the Joker.
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