{"id":44176,"date":"2018-07-23T14:25:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44176"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:07:59","slug":"robert-deniro-in-talks-to-join-todd-phillips-joker-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/23\/robert-deniro-in-talks-to-join-todd-phillips-joker-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert DeNiro In Talks To Join Todd Phillips JOKER Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Joker-Robert-DeNiro-678x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"382\" \/>Rumor had it that Todd Phillips wanted Robert DeNiro for his\u00a0<strong>Joker\u00a0<\/strong>film, and it looks like he might just get him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/robert-de-niro-talks-join-joaquin-phoenix-joker-movie-1127469\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> states that DeNiro is in negotiations to star as a talk show host somehow involved in the transformation of Joaquin Phoenix into the Joker. It would be DeNiro&#8217;s first comic book film.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of DeNiro&#8217;s involvement in the film began <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/19\/rumored-casting-requirements-for-todd-phiilips-the-joker-released\/\">back in June<\/a>, with the release of\u00a0 rumored casting call sheet. DeNiro was rumored to be sought for a character named Murray Franklin. If Franklin turns out to be the talk show host, that will be the second listing from that sheet that came to pass. .<\/p>\n<p>News of these negotiations follow closely to the new that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/20\/deadpool-2s-zazie-beetz-in-talks-for-joker\/\"><strong>Deadpool 2<\/strong>&#8216;s Zazie Beetz is also in negotiations<\/a> to play \u201ca single mother who catches the interest of the man who will go on to become the \u2018clown prince of crime.\u2019\u201d Per that June casting sheet, that sounds a lot like the description for the character of Sophie Dumond. It looks like ThatHashtagShow.com got some pretty good information back in June.<\/p>\n<p>More on this as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actor, long-rumored to be sought for a role. will play a talk show host instrumental in the origin of THE JOKER<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/23\/robert-deniro-in-talks-to-join-todd-phillips-joker-film\/\" title=\"Robert DeNiro In Talks To Join Todd Phillips JOKER Film\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[1271,7722,582,3045,8903],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-joaquin-phoenix","9":"tag-joker","10":"tag-robert-deniro","11":"tag-todd-phillips","12":"tag-zazie-beetz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44176"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}