Jared Leto will play the Joker once more within the director’s minimize of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter. Leto performed the function in 2016’s Suicide Squad, however plans for his look Justice League, filmed in 2016, didn’t pan out.

Snyder’s new minimize of Justice League, which was initially launched in 2017, will probably be obtainable solely on HBO Max someday in 2021. The director is reshooting components of the film, with a reported price range of $70 million for the brand new, reportedly four-hour model of the movie. Snyder stepped down from manufacturing on Justice League in 2016 because of a household tragedy, and Warner Bros. chosen author/director Joss Whedon to finish the movie.

Leto’s Joker was a supporting character in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, through which he appeared in just a few scenes. The Justice League reshoots are at the moment underway, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter. Ben Affleck (Batman), Ray Fisher (Cyborg), and Amber Heard (Mera) are all a part of the brand new manufacturing. It’s unclear how a lot Leto will seem within the reworked movie, which is formally titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League, nor are there any indications that different characters from Suicide Squad, like Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, will seem.

The Hollywood Reporter additionally stated studio executives Jon Berg and Geoff Johns is not going to obtain producer credit on the brand new movie. In September, Cyborg actor Fisher recommended Whedon created a poisonous on-set setting throughout Justice League’s unique manufacturing, noting that Whedon’s conduct was enabled by Berg and Johns. A Hollywood Reporter supply stated the transfer is “unconnected to feedback made by Fisher.”