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Bratty Jared Leto tried to stop ‘Joker’ being made because he wasn’t a part of it!

• Bratty Jared Leto tried to stop ‘Joker’ being made because he wasn’t a part of it!

• Bratty Jared Leto tried to stop ‘Joker’ being made because he wasn’t a part of it!

  ReedeFox > 21/10/2019, 13:52

  Even though the Joker movie is being hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time by fans and critics, it appears not everyone is so keen - one man who has panties in a twist over the movie’s huge success is none other Jared Leto AKA the Joker in Suicide Squad. 
  
   
  
  You probably remember Jared’s role quite well, mainly down to the fact that the movie was a total pile of shit and his portrayal of the Joker was pure cringe. Apparently though, Jared didn’t think his portrayal was that bad as he had hoped that they were going to build a new Joker franchise around his character. Obviously this didn’t happen because the movie was badly received and instead of taking the news on the chin, Jared went out of his way to actively try and block Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker movie from being made. He actually called literally everyone he knew with any power or influence in Hollywood to ask them to to try and stop the movie from happening. Wow, what a nutjob. 
  
   
  
  Here’s exactly what happened, as told in The Hollywood Reporter:  
   
  

  Quote:According to sources familiar with Leto’s behavior, when the Oscar-winning actor learned of the Phillips project, he not only complained bitterly to his agents at CAA, who also represent Phillips, but asked his music manager, Irving Azoff, to call the leader of Warners parent company (it’s unclear whether it was Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes or AT&T’s Randall Stephenson, depending on the timing). The idea was to get Warners to kill the Phillips film. 
   
  A source in Leto’s camp denies that the actor made this request, and Azoff declined to comment. Azoff and Leto have since parted ways.THR previously reported that the 47-year-old star, who played the grinning crime lord in 2016’s Suicide Squad, thought Warners had strung him along with promises of his own Joker stand-alone film, only to greenlight the Phillips’ version with Joaquin Phoenix instead. Ironically, Warners thought the Phillips project would be a small movie and, nervous about its dark tone, greenlit the pic reluctantly with a small budget that some at the studio were hoping would discourage Phillips from making it.
   
  Meanwhile, Leto’s unhappiness over the Phillips project seems to have helped end an already strained relationship between Leto and CAA. Sources say the actor felt his agents should have told him about the Phillips project earlier and fought harder for his version of Joker. Sources say Leto told his agents that they should stop the rival project, arguing that he wasn’t being treated properly as an Oscar winner (for Dallas Buyers Club). But a person with first-hand knowledge of the situation contends that by then, Leto had burned through four different teams of agents at CAA and there was little love for the actor there.
  
  Leto left CAA for rival WME over the summer. A source in Leto’s camp says the rocker-actor had been looking to make a switch and denies that the competing Joker movies factored into his decision

   
  Sounds like someone really threw their toys out of the pram didn’t they?! I mean yeah, it’s a little shitty that he was promised a stand-alone movie but they probably made those promises before the shocking reviews. Jared should’ve just kept a shred of dignity and kept Shtum.

• RE: Bratty Jared Leto tried to stop ‘Joker’ being made because he wasn’t a part of it!

  spitefulI > 21/10/2019, 14:06

  
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