Martin Scorsese has little interest in seeing JokerMovie: “I saw clips of it. I know it. So it’s like, why do I need to? I get it. It’s fine.”
Keep your superhero movies away from him! Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for AFI After serving up some scalding tea about Marvel movies, Martin Scorsese has a lukewarm take on one of the year’s most controversial films, Joker. Directed by Todd Phillips, Joker features more than one homage to Scorsese films Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. But , Scorsese has little to no interest in seeing Joker. “I saw clips of it,” Scorsese told the New York Times. “I know it.
Scorsese only needs to see enough of Joker to be able to tell his pal and The Irishman star Robert De Niro that he did well in it. Watch the whole thing? Unnecessary. He gets it and it’s fine. Scorsese actually turned down an offer to executive produce the film, presumably because his opinion on superhero movies stay the same no matter how gritty and dark the origin story is.
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