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Suicide Squad: Jared Leto's Joker Teased with Killing Joke Homage

Posted on the 10 April 2015 by Imorfy
David Ayer has revealed a first look at Jared Leto in Joker mode for the Suicide Squad movie.
The filmmaker took to Twitter to share an image of a green-haired Leto posing with a camera after fans pointed out that the actor was missing from his recent cast picture.
#WhereIsJared #SuicideSquad pic.twitter.com/D5tMnMGBop
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) April 10, 2015
The striking still is a tip of the hat to the cover image from Alan Moore's 1988 one-shot comic The Killing Joke, which featured art from Brian Bolland and colours by John Higgins.
The Killing Joke depicted the origins of the iconic supervillain, with his stand-up comedy career going south after he falls in with the criminal underworld.
'Batman: The Killing Joke': Joker
Suicide Squad will star Will Smith, Viola Davis, Jay Hernandez, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jai Courtney, Karen Fukuhara and Cara Delevingne.
It centres around a group of DC Comics villains - among them Deadshot, Harley Quinn, the Joker and Captain Boomerang - who are dispatched on a government-sanctioned mission of redemption.
Suicide Squad will open in cinemas in August 2016.
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