Director/writer/actor/producer Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin
THERE IS A Joker movie due out this year you’ll have heard of —Joker: Folie À Deux, from DC Films. But there is another Joker movie on the slate: The People’s Joker, a chaotic mixed-media parody movie which re-imagines Batman’s greatest foe as a trans woman in Gotham City embarking on a coming-of-age romance. Shot in just five days, it is totally unauthorised by DC —and was very nearly banned.
“This is every lawyer's favourite movie,” Vera Drew, the film’s star, writer, director and producer tells Empire, before deadpanning: “It was obviously my childhood dream to make a movie like that.”