Todd Phillips’ “Joker” origin movie has added two crucial “Batman” characters: Alfred Pennyworth and Bruce Wayne.
Douglas Hodgewill play Pennyworth, Batman’s longtime butler-medic-strategist, and Dante Pereira-Olson will play a very young Bruce Wayne, years before he begins his career as the Caped Crusader.
Hodge and Olson join Brett Cullen as Batman’s father Thomas Wayne. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the man who will become the clown prince of crime.
While story details are being kept under wraps, TheWrap previously reported that the origin story for Batman’s nemesis will be more of a mid-budget crime thriller than a superhero blockbuster.