Project Joker (2022)

Project Joker is a movie in the Project Series that released in August, 2022. It takes place soon after the events of Project Justice League and was initially the sequel to the cancelled movie, Project Watchmen. Not to be confused with Project Joker (2018), the scrapped movie based around The Joker which was released on the Project Batman Unseen Footage DVD.

## Plot

Gotham City's crime underworld is thrown into chaos as a man dressed as the Joker appears, and with his arrival comes a new group named The Seventh Kavalry. Batman must unravel the mystery of who the new Joker is and put an end to his crime and the Seventh Kavalry.

## Production

Project Joker started out as a 2018 movie of the same name that was scrapped. After the events of Project Justice League, Project Watchmen was going to release and then a sequel to that, Project The Button would follow up on Jack Napier's arrival in Universe 4 (Aka Earth 1). Due to the cancellation of both, Jack Napier: Joker was the result of the ideas to be introduced in the two projects. The movie would later be renamed to Project Joker as it had no relation to the now cancelled Project Watchmen. A teaser for "Jack Napier: Joker" was included on the unreleased Project Justice League DVD.

Filming began in January, 2022 right after the release of PJL and concluded in April with a handful of scenes being shot last minute in the coming months. There was a 4-5 month period of no progress on the movie which led to many scenes being cut, including backstory scenes and more that added context and purpose to plot points set up early on.

## Reception

Project Joker was panned by critics and viewers alike, being considered the first flop of the Project Series since Project Batman 4 (And Project Batman 3). The lack of plot progression and missing scenes were the main issue many had with the film which was caused by an abrupt climax and ending with no pay off to any of the established plot points and foreshadowing and Jack Napier's name not even being said aside from a throwaway line from a thug and the name being in the credits. The lack of context for Napier's motivations and backstory in the movie resulted in him being considered a lackluster protagonist and character. Batman and Gordon also suffered from messy screentime and cut scenes and Johnny Frost ended up being the most complete character.

The performance and editing were highly praised however, with many considering it having the strongest presentation in the series, with its plot being it's Akillies heel. Were the movie to include its deleted scenes and have a more fleshed out plot that had payoff it would likely have been a sucess. The film also has the lowest box office of recent Project Movies, only making 4,000,000$

A critic known as Timothy Widener Fine Art gave the movie horrible reviews about how it is unoriginal, despite him never actually watching the movie due to limited showings

## Sequels

Project Joker sets up a Project The Riddler movie in it's post credits scene, however, this movie will never be made. Originally, this movie was also going to set up Project Watchmen, which would've been a prequel explaining Jack Napier's backstory. This movie has since been cancelled due to VFX issues and being too ambitious and mature.

## Trivia

Project Joker is the first Project Movie, let alone movie in the whole Overforce catalogue, to be filmed in 1080p resolution.

The name Jack Napier comes from The Joker (Played by Jack Nicholson, best known for his role as Jack Torrence in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name)'s name in Tim Burton's Batman (1989).

There were many scenes to be included that would have been in the cancelled Project Watchmen which go unused. The names of the characters in these scenes can be seen in the end credits.

Timothy Widener of Timothy Widener Fine Art is listed in the Special Thanks of the credits, despite contributing nothing to the production or the lives of those involved of said production of the movie.

The scene where Jack Napier is thrown onto a bed and falls off, landing on the floor was a real stunt in which the actor was thoroughly scolded by his parents.

The way The Janitor sharpens his knives is completely wrong and dulls the blades instead.

The Janitor resembles Walter White from AMC television show Breaking Bad.

The Janitor was initially to be an omnipotent entity with unknown origin.

In a scrapped post credit scene, The Reverse Flash was to appear.

In another error, the director and writer's name is misspelled in the opening credits.

The post credits scene was made just to include a post credits scene, and was made in 5 minutes.

Project Joker is the first R rated Project movie since Project Batman 4

Despite being rated R and featuring graphic violence and gore, Project Joker censors some, not all, but only some of its uses of "Fuck"

After the movie concluded during it's first and only screening, the director was berated with insults from his mother

A project movie featuring a version of the Joker has been an idea since 2018 and has finally been made 4 years later

The Seventh Kavlary is from the HBO Watchmen show

Project Joker is the only surviving idea from when it and 3 other movies were announced.

Dave is mentioned in the credits of the movie. This is because there was a deleted flashback scene from Project Watchmen of Jack visiting his favorite bar.