pic.twitter.com/TxWo3DVTLI Just by looking in these pics you know Joaquin Phoenix is going to be amazing in the #Joker September 16, 2018

Joker Director Todd Phillips shared the first official look at Joaquin Phoenix's joker via an Instagram post captioned just "Arthur", implying that the character's name would be Arthur Fleck in the film.Phoenix was spotted in late August looking noticeably thinner to start filming the movie in early September. Now that the filming has begun in Manhattan, the new photos show Phoenix smoking and laughing like a maniac with a circus clown around an abandoned amusement park while carrying a paper carrier bag(wondering what could be in it). Check out the pictures below.Also, a video came out showing Joaquin storming out of a room, spitting on the door on which is written: "HA HA HA" with a man dressed as a clown following him who appears to be convincing Arthur for something(maybe to return to the circus?).The Joker's origin story would reportedly be loosely based on Alan Moore's The Killing Joke , written back in 1988. In the acclaimed story arc, the joker is a lab assistant and a failed stand up comedian who joins a gang of mobsters to rob and collect money for his pregnant wife. But while on the robbery, trying to escape Batman, he falls into a chemical container disfiguring himself and the unfortunate death of his wife and unborn baby drives him insane setting him up on the path of becoming the archenemy of the caped crusader.Joker opens Oct 2019. Other DC movies are Aquaman (Dec 2018), Shazam! (Arpil 2019) and Wonder Woman 1984 (Nov 2019).