Tim Burton's 1989 Batman featured a major new element to Joker's origins with a huge twist, and no future Batman movie will ever beat it.
There's plenty to love about 1989's Batman starring Michael Keaton as the titular Dark Knight, especially its major Joker twist which will never be beaten. Played by Jack Nicholson who provided the first truly dark on-screen portrayal of the Clown Prince of Crime, the script featured compelling deviations from Joker's origins in the comics. Likewise, one change in particular was so good, no future Batman movie will likely ever attempt to mirror it.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT In 1989's Batman from director Tim Burton, the Joker's original identity is confirmed to be Jack Napier, a Gotham gangster who inadvertently falls into a vat of chemicals following his first altercation with Keaton's Batman. While the identity reveal was a major change from the comics' Joker whose past is largely a mystery, it allowed for an even bigger twist for the Burtonverse.
Joker Killing The Waynes Cannot Happen In Another Batman Movie To that end, it's very unlikely that future Batman movies will ever attempt to have Joker or anyone else as the Wayne Killer other than Joe Chill. It would simply feel too derivative of 1989's Batman. It's the kind of shocking twist that's so epic it really only works once, much like Darth Vader's reveal that he's Luke's father in The Empire Strikes Back.
Case in point, subsequent Batman movies either kept the focus on Joe Chill or chose to leave the killer's identity a mystery. Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy had its own version of Joe Chill, and it's presumed the killer in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is also Chill.
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