"Warner Bros. quashed an unauthorized Joker movie. Inside the director's fight to save it"

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just before the debut of "Individuals' Joker," a farce history imagining the Batman villain as a transsexual lady attempting to break into comedy

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The filmmaker, who jokingly calls herself "the transgender Forrest Gump of alternative comedy" after working with the likes of Eric , Tim & Eric , Scott and Sacha Cohen

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In this, queer coming-of-age film, in which the titular heroine battles gender dysphoria and a toxic romance with a fellow comedian, for an official DC Comics movie such as 2019's "Joker."

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In it, Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns the DC Comics, objected to the film's public performance, reproduction and distribution as an infringement on their copyright.

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The fight over "The People's Joker," and its very public eruption at one of the world's preeminent film festivals, set up a David-and-Goliath story of superheroic proportions.

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On one side: an indie pastiche budgeted at about $100,000, according to a source close to the project — $19,000 of which was crowdfunded — and made with the help of hundreds of contributing artists all over the world during the pandemic

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On one side: an indie pastiche budgeted at about $100,000, according to a source close to the project — $19,000 of which was crowdfunded — and made with the help of hundreds of contributing artists all over the world during the pandemic

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On the other: the corporation formed from a closely watched, $43-billion merger that brought such blue-chip media properties as HBO, CNN, HGTV and Food Network under one roof.

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The result, billed as "the world's first impressionist superhero/queer art film," depicts a Gotham City policed by a fascistic Caped Crusader in which a young trans woman faces her traumas and longs to break into stand-up comedy

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The film was announced as part of TIFF's 2022 lineup in August, but Drew says it wasn't until the week before the festival, where United Talent Agency was selling the film, that Warner Bros. reached out and was given a link to the film

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