Noticeably absent from the recent Suicide Squad cast photo was Jared Leto, which was fine because you can't go on Twitter without someone posting an image of his ever-changing hairstyles to play the Joker. But now David Ayer is making up for his absence with a new image that Batman fans will immediately recognize as an homage to Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, which many see as the definitive Joker story ever written.
#WhereIsJared #SuicideSquad pic.twitter.com/D5tMnMGBop
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) April 10, 2015
So why post this image? Could it mean elements of The Killing Joke will be used in Suicide Squad? The story presented Joker as a tragic figure, a failed comedian who agrees to help a gang of criminals as a means of supporting his pregnant wife. In the process he is horribly disfigured after a run-in with Batman.
Or maybe it's just a tip of the hat to longtime Bat-fans? Suicide Squad opens on August 5th 2016.
