Jared Leto was reportedly so unhappy with Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker movie that he attempted to have it halted while it was in development.
It was previously claimed that the Oscar winner, who portrayed the character in 2016’s Suicide Squad, felt “alienated and upset” by the film, and believed it undermined his previous work and aspirations for his own Joker spin-off movie.
A separate spin-off movie for Leto’s Joker was announced in June 2018, but has been without a director or screenwriter ever since.
In 2017, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa were hired to write and direct a spin-off movie revolving around Joker and Harley Quinn, to be led by Leto and Robbie.