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Queer Superhero Parody ‘The People’s Joker’ Opens Amid “Amicable” Conversations With Warner Bros. – Specialty Preview
Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker – which was pulled from TIFF in 2022 over "rights issues" -- starts a theatrical run today at the IFC Center.
Features comedic talent in voice and live action lampooning DC heroes and villians including cameos by Bob Odenkirk, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford (Netflix’s Big Mouth, Adult Swim’s Teenage Euthanasia), and Scott Aukerman ( Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, co-creator, host Comedy Bang! Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story set in a 1920s English seaside town, Colman is a deeply conservative local Edith, and Buckley is a rowdy, foul-mouthed Irish migrant Rose, who is accused of sending wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities to her neighbors. “We are so excited about this,” said SPC co-president Michael Barker, noting great word of mouth including among younger theatergoers, who “love to see Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley going at each other … The fact that it’s R-rated makes it feel fresh and kind of uninhibited,” he said, and its a comedy amid a lot of more sober fare.
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