Joker film: Zazie Beats says they were rewriting script as they were filming
'The script was great. We rewrote the whole thing while we were shooting it'
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Your support makes all the difference.Comic book fans are waiting on tenterhooks to watch the upcoming Joaquin Phoenix-starring Joker film.
Despite the anticipation and high-expectations, director Todd Phillips reportedly had a laid back style when it came to adhearing to the script – written by himself and Scott Silver.
As Zazie Beatz, who co-stars, recently told MTV New: “The script was great. We rewrote the whole thing while we were shooting it.
“Literally, write the scene for the night and then do it. During hair and makeup we’d memorize those lines and then do them and then we’d reshoot that three weeks later.”
While rewrites of scripts on sets are not uncommon, the work done on Joker seems particularly notable considernig the scale of the production and the expectations from fans.
Starring alongside Beatz and Phoenix are Bill Camp, Frances Conroy and Robert De Niro, the latter of whom stared in Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The King of Comedy from which Joker takes inspiration.
Joker reaches cinemas 4 October, 2019.
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