The controversial Batman parody The Individuals’s Joker, which beforehand made headlines after getting pulled from the Toronto Movie Pageant (TIFF) lineup, will quickly head to the massive display screen. Per Selection’s report, the queer comedian e-book parody will hit cinemas on April 5, 2024.
Directed by Vera Drew (Our Our bodies), The Individuals’s Joker was poised to grace TIFF in 2022. Nevertheless, the filmmaker canceled the movie’s screenings because of “rights points.”
“The filmmaker has withdrawn this movie because of rights points. We apologize for any inconvenience. Present ticket holders will obtain an e mail from TIFF Buyer Relations with data on their buy,” the TIFF assertion reads.
Warner Bros. Discovery, who holds the rights to the Batman franchise, by no means launched an announcement concerning the Batman parody.
Now, with points seemingly resolved, LA-based distributor Altered Innocence has acquired the rights to the movie and is about to launch it in American theaters.
What’s The Individuals’s Joker about?
In an announcement, the movie’s director stated that The Individuals’s Joker “began as a D.I.Y. neighborhood challenge for queer artists.” Starring Drew because the aspiring clown named Joker the Harlequin, The Individuals’s Joker — billed as an “absurdist semi-autobiographical darkish comedy,” in response to Selection — is a queer-themed parody movie chronicling the primary lead’s journey forming an unlawful anti-comedy group.
“Vera Drew has taken her personal life experiences and traumas to craft a wholly new style of cinema that blurs the strains between documentary, coming-of-age movie, and parody,” Altered Innocence founder Frank Jaffe advised Selection. “We couldn’t be extra thrilled to champion this daring, clever and hilarious piece of queer cinema that audiences across the globe have fallen in love with.”
The movie additionally options appearances from Maria Bamford, Scott Aukerman, Bob Odenkirk, and Tim Heidecker.
The Individuals’s Joker premieres on April 5, 2024.
