Creator Sean Gordon Murphy is writing and drawing a Batman seven-issue miniseries for DC Comics (Batman: White Knight), and he just received approval from Warner Bros. to use the Jack Napier version of Joker. This would be the Joker played by Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton’s 1989 ‘Batman.’
“Frank Miller modeled him after David Bowie. Chris Nolan showed him as a controlled sociopath. I see the Joker as Don Draper,” said Murphy to Wired.
Murphy tweeted his excited this morning:
Big news: JACK NAPIER will be the name of my JOKER. Warner just approved–1st time Napier has been in a comic (minus Burton adaptations). pic.twitter.com/u4YwZLMmGL
— Sean Gordon Murphy (@Sean_G_Murphy) August 17, 2017
About Batman: White Knight:
Set in a world where the Joker is cured of his insanity and homicidal tendencies, The Joker, now known as “Jack,” sets about trying to right his wrongs. First by reconciling with Harley Quinn and then by trying to save Gotham city from the one person who he thinks is truly Gotham’s greatest villain—the Batman.
“My main goal was to undo the comic tropes while changing Gotham from a comic book city into a real city—a city dealing with everything from Black Lives Matter to the growing wage gap. Rather than write a comic about the wage gap, I gave those ideas to the Joker, who leads a kind of media war against Gotham’s elite by winning people over with his potent observations and rhetoric,” said Murphy to Wired.
Batman: White Knight hits your local comic book store on October 4.
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