Update: August 27, 2018
Alec Baldwin to Play Bruce Wayne's Father, Thomas Wayne, in JOKER Standalone Origin Movie
Alec Baldwin is joining Joaquin Phoenix in
Joker, Warner Bros.' standalone movie centered on the DC’s clown prince of crime.
Baldwin is the latest high-profile actor to join the project, which is scheduled to behind shooting in two weeks. Robert De Niro,
Deadpool 2 breakout Zazie Beetz and
Glow actor Marc Maron are already on the call sheet.
Phoenix is portraying the DC Comics villain in a film that is more moderately budgeted and darker than the studio’s other DC-based movies, known as the DC Cinematic Universe. The project is also described as more of a dark character study than a crime thriller, with
Taxi Driver and
The King of Comedy as the tonal watchwords.
Baldwin has been tapped for the role of Thomas Wayne, who is Batman lore is the father of Bruce Wayne, the future Batman.
But this being a movie project that will veer off center from the traditional Batman cannon, sources say that the script paints Thomas Wayne as a cheesy and tanned businessman who is more in the mold of a 1980s Donald Trump.
Baldwin already has plenty of experience playing Trump via
Saturday Night Live, which recently earned him a second Emmy nomination for the role. The actor currently can be seen onscreen in the Paramount hit
Mission: Impossible — Fallout, and recently wrapped a role in
Motherless Brooklyn, a crime drama being made by Warners.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...ns-joker-movie-as-bruce-waynes-father-1137843