Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker is prestige comic book parody
thefader.comEvery frame of The People’s Joker, the debut feature from Vera Drew, drips with an anarchist spirit. In theaters now, the film began as a lark during the COVID-19 lockdown, a gag that poked fun at the endlessly rebooted Batman franchise and its iconic lead villain the Joker.
It eventually grew into a feature-length film with Drew as its lead Joker and enlisted dozens of friends and collaborators to create the dynamic, varied visual style.
Far from a cheap gag, The People’s Joker creates a one-of-a-kind comic book movie experience and a sincere, heartbreaking, and hilarious trans coming out story.
Drew plays Joker the Harlequin, an aspiring comedian whose dreams take her from the suburbs to Gotham City. There, in the grime-and-crime-ridden DC Comics capital, she navigates love, rejection, and self-expression as she slowly transforms from meek comic to cultural terrorist surrounded by other staples from the Rogues Gallery like the Penguin and Ra's al Ghul.
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