Last 12 months the Toronto International Film Festival performed host to The People’s Joker, a queer, comedic re-imagining of Batman’s legendary foil in a Gotham City the place crime was outlawed. Warner Bros, naturally, instantly didn’t look after this, and the movie seemed prefer it was destined for a lifetime of restricted showings at festivals, if even that. But in 2024 it can discover new life.
Altered Innocence has introduced that it has secured the distribution rights for Vera Drew’s darkish comedy—in which she additionally stars as Joker the Harlequin—with a launch set to start in New York City April 5, 2024.
“I am absolutely thrilled and humbled that Altered Innocence is helping me bring The People’s Joker to theaters this spring,” Drew stated in a press launch. “This movie started as a DIY community project for queer artists and I made it with my friends to process what it was like coming out as a trans woman working in the film and TV industry. It has been a long road freeing The People’s Joker and finding a release plan that rings true to the queer, anarchist spirit we had while making it. What better home than among Altered Innocence’s catalog of gorgeously gay and deliciously edgy films.”
The People’s Joker made its debut on the 2022 TIFF; it vanished from schedules after its first screening as Warner Bros. took on the parodical view of considered one of its most well-known DC comics characters, in addition to its unfastened riff on the 2019 Todd Philips film The Joker. Although it made occasional uncommon appearances on the pageant circuit this 12 months, together with at Outfest LA and Fantastic Fest, this marks the primary in what is going to hopefully be, at the very least in some methods, a extra accessible theatrical run.
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