Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Previously, the A- list singer/actor had only ticked off the people tangentially associated with that alliterate movie franchise.

Now, he has dragged in outside forces to his displeasure and temper and entitlement.

My guess is he won’t work much in the future in the acting world.

Jared Leto

Suicide Squad, Joker

Why Joker isn’t in ‘The Suicide Squad’

The success of Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips’ R-rated take on Joker proves that audiences across the world have a huge appetite for the character.

But with Phoenix and Phillips insisting that Joker will be a one-off, stand alone movie that won’t have any sequels, DC fans are already wondering when they might get to see the super-villain on screen again.

Writer and director James Gunn has now played down any residual hope that Joker will be in his new take on Suicide Squad. During a recent Instagram Q&A Gunn was asked how he could justify making a Suicide Squad movie without Joker, which provoked the filmmaker to respond, “No one but me and a few others know all the characters in the movie. But if the Joker isn’t in the film, I don’t think it would be strange as he isn’t a part of the Suicide Squad in the comics.” – Source

Jared Leto’s Joker Tried to Foil Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker’s Fiendish Plot to Make a Movie About the Joker

Jingle bells, Batman smells, and Joker actor Jared Leto was so incensed at Warner Bros.’ plan to make a standalone movie about the Joker starring someone other than Jared Leto that he asked his then-music manager Irving Azoff to reach out to the studio’s parent company to get the film killed, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Leto’s camp denies the claim, Azoff hasn’t commented, the two men no longer work together, and the Reporter is vague enough about when this allegedly happened that they’re not sure whether Leto wanted Azoff to call Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner, or Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, depending on how far along AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner was at the time. If it happened, this attempt at corporate bigfooting would be the Joker’s most fiendish plan since he stole the Claridge Diamond—and this time, the intended victim was none other than the Joker himself!

Leto’s feelings about Joker have never been a secret: When news first broke that Warner Bros. was making a Joker origin story, back when the studio was courting Leonardo DiCaprio for the role eventually played by Joaquin Phoenix, it was also reported that Leto was complaining to his agents at CAA—they represented Phoenix, too—and that rival agency WME was playing the issue up in an attempt to poach the unhappy actor. That plan seems to have worked: Leto signed with WME last summer, although his team denies Joker was a factor in the decision. But this is the first time it has been reported that Leto’s Joker climbed the Warner Bros. corporate family tree in an attempt to kill Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker outright. – Source

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