While speaking with The Telegraph about his new Netflix film Mank, director David Fincher ruminated about Warner Bros. Pictures’ Joker and how unlikely it was that, because of its subject matter, the film became a huge hit.
“Nobody would have thought they had a shot at a giant hit with Joker had The Dark Knight not been as massive as it was,” Fincher said.
“I don’t think anyone would have looked at that material and thought ‘Yeah, let’s take [Taxi Driver’s] Travis…