Joker: The Official Script Book

by Insight Editions

Rediscover Todd Phillips’ Joker with this deluxe edition of the screenplay.

Experience a cinematic origin story of the infamous DC villain as never before with this unique edition of the Academy Award-nominated Joker screenplay! Acclaimed and evocative, Joker depicts Arthur Fleck’s descent into madness as a soulful, allegorical character study that belongs on the shelf of every Batman fan.

• DISCOVER A UNIQUE By reading the screenplay, fans will gain insight into how screenwriters Todd Phillips and Scott Silver reimagined the Joker.

• REEXPERIENCE A FILMMAKING Film stills give visual depth to this beloved screenplay.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published November 15, 2022

Reviews

[Ashley Lambert-Maberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good. The script isn't the film, so I'm not grading it by how much I enjoyed the resulting movie, but how much I enjoyed reading this compared to other things I read (novels, plays, etc.) It flew by, it was evocative, if you didn't see the film you could easily imagine it based on the screenplay here. I'm taking a screenwriting course and was encouraged to read more screenplays. I don't love that it's by "Insight Editions" rather than Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, who actually wrote the screenplay. That's regrettable.

(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. But these aren't ratings of quality, they're a subjective account of how much I liked the book: 5* = an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish, 4* = really enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)

[Valentine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book lives in my mind rent free ✨️