Anna Daniels
Fans on Twitter have been psyching themselves up to see Willem portray “da foe” of Pattinson’s Batman (we’re truly sorry, we just couldn’t resist) ever since The Lighthouse dropped last October. The flick is essentially a two-man stage production with Dafoe and Pattinson continually one-upping each other in the crazy department, and the two actors’ intense chemistry had lighthouse-sized light bulbs appearing over the heads of Bat-fans far and wide (we know, we’re really on a roll here).
“Willem Dafoe as Joker, in a post-credit scene of The Batman,” wrote user @SEALkraven. “Just imagine.” A heap of fellow Twitterers followed that instruction, filling out the thread with succinct replies such as “dies w/ excitement.”
One user even posited that that sneaky Matt Reeves, The Batman‘s writer-director, might have gone so far as to already set this up — and is just waiting to spring it on fans in the fashion described above. “Imagine if Willem Dafoe has been secretly cast as The Joker in The Batman,” they wrote, “and it’s not revealed until the end in his cell in Arkham to set up the sequel.”
Other users asserted that the Joker was nothing less than the role that Dafoe was born to play, and some expressed their shock that such a spot-on casting choice had never come to fruition before. Oddly enough, it turns out that the idea of casting Dafoe as the Clown Prince of Crime has been had before — by the guy who wrote the screenplay that would evolve into Tim Burton’s Batman.
Written by: Looper
