Joaquin Phoenix has revealed that he was considered for the Joker role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.

Heath Ledger famously portrayed the Clown Prince of Crime in a posthumous Oscar-winning turn. By Christy Piña Associate Editor Phoenix sat down for Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast (below ...

Video game creator and filmmaker Hideo Kojima has expressed his opinion on Joker: Folie à Deux. Kojima took to social media ...

Before he played the starring role in 2019’s Joker, Joaquin Phoenix was close to landing the same role in The Dark Knight.

This has been a pretty solid year for comic book stories. Deadpool and Wolverine was a box office smash, and audiences ...

The Joker was one of Ledger’s final film roles and was released after his death following a prescription drug overdose in 2008. Phoenix took on the role a decade later. “To me, it was a big ...

Joaquin Phoenix revealed for the first time during a recent interview on “Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin” that he was approached to play the Joker by Christopher Nolan for 2008’s “The Dark ...

Joaquin Phoenix played his Joker cards over the long haul. As for Phoenix, "I wasn’t ready then," he said. "That’s one of those things where it’s like, ‘What is in me that’s not doing ...

The other person turned out to be the late Heath Ledger, whose Oscar-winning performance as the Joker remains one of the greatest comic book portrayals in a movie. Even Phoenix can’t deny Ledger ...

"I can't imagine what it would be if we didn't have Heath Ledger's performance in that film, right?" said Phoenix, who went on to play the character later Borja B. Hojas/WireImage; Warner Bros/DC ...