As The Batman’s ending was unfolding, viewers noticed the incarcerated Riddler hit it off with one other inmate at Arkham, who was recognized as this universe’s Joker. Days later, a deleted scene giving us important display time with Barry Keoghan’s Joker was launched, and now the world awaits what’s subsequent for this tackle the Clown Prince of Crime. Whereas that data is formally locked up tighter than Bruce Wayne’s armory within the Batcave, unofficially, there’s a rumor sharing that Keoghan’s Joker goes to issue into a number of upcoming Batman films and TV reveals.
First shared by the Marvelvision podcast, after which confirmed by Slashfilm, Warner Bros. Footage is allegedly formulating plans to highlight The Batman’s model of The Joker in a number of tasks. Whereas what we find out about The Batman: Half II doesn’t embrace if Barry Keoghan shall be current but, the rumor states that Joker shall be The Batman: Half III’s predominant villain. Moreover, there’s additionally discuss of constructing a “Joker-oriented collection” set between Half II and Half III in the identical vein as The Penguin, which has been airing on HBO and will be streamed with a Max subscription. That mentioned, it was then clarified that this may very well be both a collection the place Joker is the principle protagonist or simply “a collection the Joker is in.”
Assuming all this data is correct, then clearly large issues are in retailer for The Joker within the Batman Epic Crime Saga, even when the finer particulars haven’t been labored out but. Contemplating how critically profitable The Penguin has been, together with The Joker being Batman’s most well-known adversary, I might be shocked if a TV collection involving Barry Keoghan’s Joker didn’t transfer ahead. The trick there, nevertheless, is that if it’s potential to depict the character in a sympathetic gentle. It’s one factor to try this with Oz Cobb (though that reveal from the The Penguin’s penultimate episode make it even more durable to sympathize with him), however one other factor to do it with Joker, who is usually depicted as pure evil.
The Batman started two years after Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne began beating up criminals as a dressing up vigilante, and in some unspecified time in the future throughout these early outings, he crossed paths with The Joker, as they have been already aware of one another within the aforementioned deleted scene. No matter his crimes have been, Barry Keoghan’s tackle the character is clearly a foul seed. So holding that in thoughts, it is likely to be wiser to strategy a Joker collection by having him fill the lead antagonist position comfy and use another person because the “protagonist.”
Whether or not or not that occurs, I like the thought of saving Joker as The Batman: Half III’s predominant villain. This doesn’t imply he couldn’t nonetheless seem in Half II, however contemplating what number of different live-action interpretations of the character we’ve gotten over the past decade, plus how there are numerous different Batman villains who deserve time to shine in a film, it’s finest to save lots of him as a deal with of delayed gratification.That’s assuming, in fact, that Half III finally ends up being greenlit sometime, though it’s most likely protected to say the percentages of that taking place are stronger than not.
For now, The Penguin will conclude its eight-episode first season (perhaps Season 2 is within the playing cards in any case) this Sunday on HBO. The Batman: Half II is due out in theaters October 2, 2026.