The People’s Joker, a queer coming-of-age movie set in Gotham City, was pulled from future Toronto Film Festival screenings after its premiere.
The People's Joker, a queer coming-of-age movie set in the Batman universe, has been pulled from the Toronto Film Festival. According to the official TIFF synopsis, the film is about an aspiring clown struggling with her gender identity who dreams of being cast in a TV sketch series in Gotham City, where comedy has been criminalized. After a failed audition, she teams with another aspiring comedian to form their own comedy troupe that attracts "a rogues' gallery of would-be comics.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY A trans comic herself, Drew's debut directorial feature also sees her playing the leading role. Drew gave a Zoom interview on Tuesday before the film premiered, where she said she and the other filmmakers knew they were in "an illegal gray zone" but that the film's classification as a parody aimed to protect it from copyright infringement.
Despite the built-in riskiness of making an unlicensed movie set in one of the most intensely-trademarked universes in entertainment, those who caught the Joker satire's premiere had positive things to say. Various fans who screened the film celebrated it online, calling it "so incredible, so funny, so touching, so mind-blowing, so unbelievable," and even the best film at this year's Toronto Film Festival.
Based on the concept alone, it's a wildly ambitious endeavor made all the more impressive because Drew is a first-time director. Regardless of whether or not it even had a chance of rising above all the legal red tape, she deserves her flowers for having the guts to make a film like this and the skill to bring it to TIFF. However, whether The People's Joker will get to be witnessed by DC fans beyond those at the premiere remains a more complicated question.
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