[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6500″ img_size=”800×400″ alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]With all the buzz going on about Joaquin Phoenix’s The Joker and the steady news about Birds of Prey, that doesn’t mean that the impending Joker and Harley Quinn Movie has stopped progressing. It appears that writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have turned in their script for their “Mad Love” inspired film. While talking with Metro, Ficarra and Requa revealed some of the details of the script, that will start with relationship problems between Harley Quinn and the Joker. (Not that hard to imagine since there is a WHOLE lot of crazy going on between the two).
“It is great,” Ficarra told Metro. “The whole thing starts with Harley kidnapping Dr Phil. Played by Dr Phil hopefully. Because her and the Joker are having problems with their relationship. We had so much fun, I don’t know if we have had more fun writing a script in our career.”
Ficarra and Requa wrote this script using their experience when writing Bad Santa as well as working on the acclaimed NBC series, This is Us. A more diverse style of writing one might never find but they used it to their advantage.
“It was sort of like, we wrote Bad Santa a couple of years ago, and it was that sensibility mixed with our This Is Us sensibility,” Ficarra said. “We kind of meshed them together. We were doing a relationship movie but with the sensibility of a Bad Santa, f***ed up, mentally deranged people. It was a lot of fun.”
As entertaining as this all sounds, the reality is that with both The Joker and the upcoming Birds of Prey already on the docket, it doesn’t seem like production will be starting on this film anytime soon.
“We handed the script in and everybody loved it,” said Ficarra. “But I don’t know when they are going to do it. Because I know that they want to do Birds Of Prey and they want to do Todd [Phillips]’s Joker film first. Maybe if Birds Of Prey goes well ours will be next.”
Does what you’ve read and heard to this point make you ready to see the Joker and Harley Quinn Movie? Where should it fit among the different DC films already underway? Share your wishes with us at GVNation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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