{"id":4134,"date":"2018-09-23T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T17:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/09\/23\/joker-harley-quinn-spinoff-writers-say-the-film-will-be-a-cross-between-bad-santa-and-this-is-us\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T17:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T17:15:34","slug":"joker-harley-quinn-spinoff-writers-say-the-film-will-be-a-cross-between-bad-santa-and-this-is-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/09\/23\/joker-harley-quinn-spinoff-writers-say-the-film-will-be-a-cross-between-bad-santa-and-this-is-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Joker\/Harley Quinn Spinoff Writers Say the Film Will Be a Cross Between \u2018Bad Santa\u2019 and \u2018This Is Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the Joker-related news has had to do with Joaquin Phoenix this week, but he isn&#8217;t the only one donning clown makeup right now. There&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/jared-leto\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jared-leto\">Jared Leto<\/a>, whose turn as the Clown Prince of Gotham in &#8220;Suicide Squad&#8221; wasn&#8217;t especially well received but is receiving a standalone project co-starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/margot-robbie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_margot-robbie\">Margot Robbie<\/a>&#8217;s Harley Quinn nevertheless.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/glenn-ficarra\/\" id=\"auto-tag_glenn-ficarra\">Glenn Ficarra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/john-requa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-requa\">John Requa<\/a>, who are writing said spinoff, reveal in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metro.us\/entertainment\/movies\/the-joker-and-harley-quinn-spin-off-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Metro<\/a> interview that the film lies somewhere in between &#8220;Bad Santa&#8221; and &#8220;This Is Us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/09\/joker-joaquin-phoenix-clown-makeup-camera-test-1202005876\/\" title=\"\u2018Joker\u2019: Joaquin Phoenix Debuts His Clown Makeup in Todd Phillips\u2019 First Look Screen Test \u2014 Watch\">\u2018Joker\u2019: Joaquin Phoenix Debuts His Clown Makeup in Todd Phillips\u2019 First Look Screen Test \u2014 Watch<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt is great. The whole thing starts with Harley kidnapping Dr. Phil. Played by Dr. Phil hopefully. Because her and the Joker are having problems with their relationship,\u201d Ficarra says. \u201cWe had so much fun, I don\u2019t know if we have had more fun writing a script in our career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sort of like, we wrote &#8216;Bad Santa&#8217; a couple of years ago, and it was that sensibility mixed with our &#8216;This Is Us&#8217; sensibility. We kind of meshed them together,\u201d he Ficarra. \u201cWe were doing a relationship movie but with the sensibility of a &#8216;Bad Santa,&#8217; f\u2014ed up, mentally deranged people. It was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/08\/joaquin-phoenix-joker-expectations-1201997124\/\" title=\"Joaquin Phoenix on Playing the Joker and Facing Big Expectations: \u2018I Don\u2019t Really Care That Much What People Think\u2019\">Joaquin Phoenix on Playing the Joker and Facing Big Expectations: \u2018I Don\u2019t Really Care That Much What People Think\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>As for when it might be released, the two know about as much as we do: \u201cI don\u2019t know where it is on the queue of DC movies,\u201d says Requa.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the Joker-related news has had to do with Joaquin Phoenix this week, but he isn&#8217;t the only one donning clown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-4134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-14G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}