Gotham's Bruno Heller: "We’ve Absolutely Considered The Possibility Of A Female Joker"
SPOILERS Ahead for last night's episode of Gotham, "The Last Laugh!"
Yes, despite his expert protrayal at the hands of Cameron Monaghan,
who seemed to take the best of multiple Jokers and put them into the
character of Jerome, the young man with the sadistic laugh died last
night on Gotham. The character, then, serves to inspire the next attempt - or two or five or ten attempts - at becoming the ultimate villain.
When discussing the death of Jerome with Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller,
though, we had to ask about the ComicBook.com theory that Barbara Kean
could, in fact, become The Joker on the series. After all, Heller has
said in the past that The Joker would be inspired by other people, and
Barbara worked very closely with Jerome these last few episodes. She
even commented to mastermind Theo Galavan, "I don’t know, the kid had a
way about him" when he mentioned Jerome's whole modus operandi.
At the end of a phone interview with Heller, I asked about the
theory. The writer and producer known for his candid nature gave a
still-somehow-surprisingly-candid response: It's completely feasible.
Aside from the evidence already on Gotham,
and the last three weeks of additional support for the theory about
Barbara, there is some comic book support as well. If you think of Gotham as an alternate reality to the main DC Comics world, in another alternate reality, Flashpoint,
there was already a female Joker. In that world, Bruce Wayne was killed
in the alley, driving his father Thomas to become Batman and his mother
Martha to become The Joker. Also, Barbara Kean has historically had
some mental instability in the comics, and the son of her and Jim Gordon
has gone on to be a sadistic killer in his own right.
Here is Bruno Heller's response to the theory - and even the possibilty of a female Joker - in full:
Source : Comicbook.com
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