It finally happened. After a press tour full of dumb quotes that sparked controversy, including trying to take on Keanu Reeves and “John Wick 3,” Todd Phillips finally said something good and revealed there are deleted scenes of “Joker,” but he will never release them.
While comic book movies often arrive on home video with extended sequences or tales of a prophetic “director’s cut” that solves all of the film’s problems, do not expect to see “Joker” get the same treatment. In an interview with Collider, Phillips rejected the idea of a director’s cut for his film when asked about additional footage to his 122-minute film.
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“I hate fucking extended cuts. I hate deleted scenes,” Phillips said. “They’re deleted for a reason. The movie that exists is exactly the movie I want it to be and I will never show a deleted scene.”
If you somehow absolutely must know about what Phillips didn’t let you see (other than 4 extra hours of Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck awkwardly dancing), he did tease what was cut.
“We did cut this fun thing together of all the times of [Joaquin] walking out on Murray Franklin because every time the guy would go, Murray would stand and go, ‘Please welcome Joker,’ and the curtains would open and he comes out and does something different every time,” Phillips explained. “You know the thing in the movie, he spins, he kisses the woman. But we cut this thing together of ‘Please welcome Joker,’ and I don’t know, we did it 13 times maybe, and they’re all different and they’re so funny and there’s so many good ones. I was like, ‘Oh, I wonder why I didn’t use that one?’”
Is this it? We’ll never know. Maybe the theatrical cut is everything of importance that was shot, or maybe Phillips will spend the next couple of years posting weird pictures and teasing an extended cut on Vero.