Todd Phillips Says Robert De Niro ‘Really Loved’ Joker’s Script

Robert De Niro has addressed these parallels in the past. In Joker, he plays talk show host Murray Franklin, who, in a key sequence in the film, interacts with Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck. While Murray Franklin is not King of Comedy’s mentally deranged wannabe stand-up comedian Rupert Pupkin years later, and Joker is not an unofficial sequel to that film, De Niro admits that it is connected in an obvious way.

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