Luckily, it seems that Phillips and co-writer Scott Silver knocked it out of the park here.
You can learn more about the film when ReelBlend’s exclusive interview with Phoenix himself hits the web on October 4.
Joker needs to focus on its subject and keep that focus there.
Given that Todd Phillips’s Joker is a character study about the Clown Prince of Crime and how he came to be, bringing in Batman would shift the focus in an unwelcome way.