Joker 2 | Behind-The-Scenes 2019’s Joker, the gritty origin story directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, ends with Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) smearing a bloody smile across his face after emerging from the wreckage of a crashed police car. Swaying to the music in his mind as a mob of people wearing Joker makeup and clown masks set fire to Gotham City, Arthur becomes the Joker, according to the final shooting script dated December 2018. But the Joker script (subtitled “an origin”) nearly ended dif