9 Actors Who Could Play Martin Scorsese’s Joker

1) Caleb Landry Jones

Comic book movie viewers will most know Caleb Landry Jones for his role as Banshee in 2011’s X-Men: First Class. If you didn’t think much of his rather forgettable character in that movie, though, don’t let that put you off. Landry Jones has proven himself a very capable actor elsewhere. In particular, he seems to have a knack for playing sinister people.

In Get Out, for instance, the actor delivered perhaps the creepiest moment in an already highly unsettling movie, when Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris meets his girlfriend Rose’s clearly unhinged brother Jeremy. Landry Jones’ performance as Jeremy is the sort of magnetic turn that launches an actor into the spotlight. Could his next big break be the Joker? Landry Jones certainly has the suitable looks for the part.

At 27-years-old and as not too famous a name as yet, he also fits in with the requirements for the role we mentioned earlier. Giving us a lesser-known young actor as the new Joker would be a refreshing change from previous portrayals, and Warner Bros. couldn’t do much better than casting Caleb Landry Jones in the part.