Jared Leto Praises SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Director But Is Unsure When He'll Play The Joker Again

@Highflyer - Well, I was thinking that I'd rather see him on the cutting room floor next. Actually, tweak his appearance to be more traditional Joker, give him the right script and right direction and I still give Leto a chance. Ditch the whole "Mexican crime lord", tats and grill. He was menacing in some scenes, especially with Harley before she was Harley.

@RolandD @Elayem - I've been trying to come up with ideas of how they can incorporate cleaning him up into the story, and the best option according to me would be something like this.

This Joker's most beloved feature was his smile. Batman took that away, and not only did he start to view himself as damaged, he became self-conscious about it and became convinced everyone mocked him for being damaged now.
To deal, he had the tattoos done, as a way of "owning" being damaged.
But it's still driving him nuts, and he's actually become kind of scared of the Bat.

During a Batman film of a somewhat smaller scale, we'll see Batman handling crimes of all sorts, with all of it leading back to the Joker, who's running everything from the shadows, becoming increasingly frustrated with the Bat's interference in his business, to the point of where he plans on taking out the Bat by ordering someone else to do it. At this point, he overhears one of his henchman making a joke about the Joker being scare and "afraid to take care of his own business", and the Joker flips and beats the henchman to death with his bare hands, in front of everyone else, while laughing. The henchmen that was ordered to kill the Bat obviously fails, and Joker realizes that he himself must have to face him, and take care of it himself.

So the Joker sets up a trap, that will require the Bat to solve a few mysteries that will lead him right where the Joker wants him. simultaneously, as we see Batman solving the mysteries and falling into the Joker's trap, we see the Joker making himself pretty again for the Batman, starting by fixing his smile, and also taking a bath in some chemical that makes the tattoos dissolve. Then he puts on his tailored purple suit and goes to trap his beloved little Bat.


I don't know, something along those lines could be cool, I think.

@Philip - I dig it.
Most important to me is getting rid of the awful tattoos (I never minded the fake teeth) and bringing back the Joker's obsession/love with Batman and not Harley Quinn. Your idea hits both of those.