Why Is Hollywood Developing Three Different Joker Movies?
The flurry of news about multiple films featuring Batman’s chief villain shows just how desperate the industry is becoming.
No subgenre has seen a more massive boost in prestige in Hollywood than the comic-book film. It used to be when critically acclaimed young directors like Bryan Singer would take on a project like , whereas now it’s practically a matter of course for fledgling artists to leap at such an opportunity, and for Oscar-feted stars to burnish their credentials with a superhero jaunt (think Benedict Cumberbatch in or Cate Blanchett in the upcoming ). But at last, we have an example of this trend running in the opposite direction, of a bulletproof comic-book brand that’s losing much
