The Joker

9 Actors Who Could Play Martin Scorsese’s Joker

To misquote the Clown Prince of Crime himself, everyone lost their minds yesterday when it was revealed that Warner Bros. are working on an origins movie for the Joker. It will be written and directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover) and - here's the bit that people can't get their heads around - produced by the one and only Martin Scorsese.

6) Bill Skarsgard

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One of the Skarsgard acting dynasty (see also: Stellan, Alexander and Gustaf), Bill Skarsgard currently only has a few movie roles under his belt – supporting turns in the likes of Anna Karenina and The Divergent Series, for instance – but his career is surely about to skyrocket thanks to his part in the upcoming remake of Stephen King’s It.

And, by the looks of things, Skarsgard might have managed the impossible and portrayed an even scarier version of Pennywise than Tim Curry, the man who made us all wet our beds for years in the old 1990 miniseries. Now, that’s the sort of actor you need to play the Joker. Based on what we’ve seen so far, some critics have even favourably compared Skarsgard’s performance in It to Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. You can’t get higher praise that that.

The only problem here is that Skarsgard might be worried about typecasting if he was to play another villainous clown right after It. Likewise, WB might assume he’s too obvious a choice and look elsewhere. Let’s hope not, though, as it’s clear that Skarsgard would make a deeply unsettling Joker.


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