Clown: Pas de deux This weekend’s box office performance may have been surprising, but its ending has people talking, whether they go see the sequel or not. While that conclusion is controversial, it’s clear that we almost got something similar in the climax of the original film… if not for the alleged rejection by Christopher Nolan himself.
pas de deux The film climaxes with the imprisoned Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), who is stabbed to death by a fellow inmate after his trial while awaiting death sentence. As Arthur bleeds out, in the blurry background we see the prisoner begin to giggle in a clown-like manner before holding a knife to their own face, seemingly carving a smile scar on their mouth, similar to Heath Ledger in Joker. dark knight. When one clown falls, another rises. But a new report suggests that a version of this controversial moment almost came to fruition in Todd Phillips’ original. clown Movie.
As part of a new report from The Hollywood Reporter , discussed pas de deuxA box office flop, industry insiders quoted sources as saying that the original script for the first installment clown Arthur stood before his gathered supporters, scarring himself with a familiar smile pattern. However, the idea was abandoned — not at the behest of Phillips, or even Warner Bros., but by the studio’s other top director at the time, Christopher Nolan, who reportedly thought only the late Heath Lay Jay’s role as the Joker should be cancelled.
the first time clownNolan has a very close relationship with Warner Bros., a relationship that significantly soured in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when the director was hesitant to turn to Warner Bros. The plan was to schedule the 2021 theatrical slate with streaming dates and dates via the studio’s platform Max (then known as HBO Max). Already frustrated that his time warp movie is in theaters purpose Via Warner in 2020, Nolan was one of the most vocal and prominent directors to publicly lambaste the decision. He broke with his traditional distribution relationship with Warner Bros. to make critically acclaimed hits Oppenheimer Went to Universal Studios last year.
All this means that by then pas de deux All over the place, Nolan didn’t quite fit in at Warner Bros., at least with the Knicks influence someone Injured during the climax of the film. Would this moment have been more controversial if Arthur’s Joker had scarred himself, or was the wild ending twist more about how it dramatically took him out of the picture? We’ll never know now, but one thing’s for sure – don’t ask Chris Nolan how he felt about it, he almost certainly won’t tell you.
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