This has been a pretty solid year for comic book stories. Deadpool and Wolverine was a box office smash, and audiences ...

Joaquin Phoenix tried quitting “Gladiator” mid-shoot before being persuaded to stay ... Phoenix went on to win Best Actor for ...

Joaquin Phoenix has revealed that he almost played the Joker instead of Heath Ledger, which could have greatly altered two celebrated franchises.

Few actors could have replaced Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, and even fewer had a chance to be The Joker. That doesn’t ...

Joaquin Phoenix had his turn at playing the Joker in the Todd Phillips Joker films, but the actor could have played the DC ...

The Joker star was locked in to play the lead role in Todd Haynes’ untitled gay romance flick but abruptly quit just five ...

After wasting Todd Haynes’ time and, subsequently, the precious time of Joker: Folie À Deux‘s meager audience, Joaquin ...

Ledger and Phoenix’s Oscar wins have turned The Joker into one of the most coveted roles for actors working today, but that ...

"I can't imagine what it would be if we didn't have Heath Ledger's performance in that film, right?" said Phoenix, who went ...

Joaquin Phoenix has revealed that he was considered for the Joker role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.

Joker: Folie à Deux star Joaquin Phoenix has claimed that filmmaker Christopher Nolan offered him the role of The Joker in ...

Heath Ledger eventually played the Joker opposite Christian Bale as The Dark Knight in the second movie of Nolan's Batman ...