9 Actors Who Could Play Martin Scorsese’s Joker

8) Cameron Monaghan

Even before the announcement of a Joker origins movie, Jared Leto was still not the only live-action Clown Prince of Crime currently on our screens. Over on Fox’s Gotham, Cameron Monaghan plays Jerome Valeska – a young serial killer who’s heavily hinted to be the adolescent Joker. His brilliant performance has been acclaimed by fans, too – so you know he’d be terrific at bringing the Joker to the big screen.

In many ways, it makes perfect sense to cast Monaghan, as it would be a natural progression of his role on Gotham. While he plays a proto-Joker on the Batman prequel show, he would then get to perform Joker’s origin story in the movie. We’re not suggesting the film would be set in Gotham‘s universe, just that it would be a nice link from the actor and the fans’ point of view.

Sadly, this sort of cross-pollination between DC’s movie and TV divisions is highly unlikely, given how separate the two have always been in the past. After all, fans have previously campaigned for the likes of Tom Welling and Grant Gustin to make the jump to the movie world before to no avail, so we unfortunately don’t see this happening.