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'Joker' Parody: 'The People's Joker' is banned from showing after it premieres at the Toronto Film Festival

2022-09-15T19:10:41.331Z


'Joker' Parody: 'The People's Joker' is banned from showing after it premieres at the Toronto Film Festival Created: 09/15/2022, 21:00 By: Janine Napirca Vera Drew's "The People's Joker" can no longer be shown for legal reasons. The “Joker” parody premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Slate.com calls it "Toronto International Film Festival's (TIFF) hottest film to have it all:


'Joker' Parody: 'The People's Joker' is banned from showing after it premieres at the Toronto Film Festival

Created: 09/15/2022, 21:00

By: Janine Napirca

Vera Drew's "The People's Joker" can no longer be shown for legal reasons.

The “Joker” parody premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Slate.com

calls it "Toronto International Film Festival's (TIFF) hottest film to have it all: a transgender coming-of-age story, an unauthorized take on an iconic comic book villain, and a cease and desist letter from one of the world's largest media conglomerates."

the movie The People's Joker.

The "Joker" parody will probably not be shown again after the premiere.

While neither filmmaker Vera Drew nor Warner Bros, which owns the film rights to the DC villain, have commented,

Toronto International Film Festival 2022

informs on its site that the film has been withdrawn due to legal issues.

Vera wrote and directed the film, which stars Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin, a trans woman trying to break into Gotham City's underground comedy scene.

She teams up with Oswald Cobblepot, aka Penguin, and forms an emotionally manipulative relationship with a character based on Jason Todd, aka Robin - a trans man who was once Bruce Wayne's underage ward and lover have been done.

The People's Joker picks up on various Batman films.

Legal Issues: Why was Vera Drew's The People's Joker filmed and released at all?

The creator of "The People's Joker" Vera Drew, according to a report by

film starts

, invokes the so-called fair use doctrine, which states that copyrighted material is used within certain limits for the purpose of criticism, opinion, reporting, education or used for science - this also includes parodies that are very closely linked to the original.

Otherwise, however, they would be considered unpermitted satire.

Joaquin Phoenix won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of The Joker.

The People's Joker parodies the DC production.

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TIFF Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky is

said

to be a staunch supporter of The People's Joker, according to Polygon.com, for which he resisted an injunction that allowed the film to get a public screening.

There also seems to have been problems with another production from the Batman universe.

The new DC series "Gotham Knights" was originally supposed to be released in 2021, but Warner Bros. has now confirmed that the series will be released on October 21, 2022.

Many fans are eagerly awaiting new seasons of this series

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Twitter: Filmmaker Vera Drew probably expected problems with her film "The People's Joker"

A tweet from The People's Joker creator suggested that she might have already anticipated trouble: "I have no idea how today is going to go and my team obviously doesn't want me to say anything so I'm going to be vague ... but whatever happens in the next few hours, I want you to know... if you've been waiting to see our film, you'll get to it soon.

Stay tuned and stay with me.

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What is Vera Drew's 'Joker' parody 'The People's Joker' about?

In The People's Joker, Vera tells her story as Joker the Harlequin.

For example, according to

Polygon.com

, she is addicted to a nitrous oxide that she was prescribed when she was a child by a doctor who wanted to suppress her trans identity.

When her transformation is complete, she reportedly dances down a 2D rendering of the famous "Joker Staircase."

The People's Joker will also feature odes to Batman stories such as Batman: Hush, The Dark Knight Returns and Todd Phillips' Joker.

The character also has an emotionally abusive romance with "Mr.

J,” a male transversion of Jared Leto's Joker from David Ayer's 2016 Suicide Squad. 

Since you probably won't be able to see "The People's Joker" any time soon, why not just while away the time comfortably at home on the sofa with the new releases on Netflix, new films and series on Amazon Prime Video or stream new titles on Disney Plus.

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