Everything You Need to Know About the Joker Movie Starring Joaquin Phoenix

According to the studio, the story will pick up with the Joker in Gotham City in the early 1980s prior to his life as a criminal mastermind, resulting in an "exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale." The Hollywood Reporter also revealed that the project's budget is around $55 million, which is noticeably lower than other tent poles in the genre, and fans can expect the stand-alone to be tonally similar to a crime drama.