The People's Joker Pulled From TIFF Over 'Rights Issues' After World Premiere
Vera Drew's debut feature The Peoples Joker has been removed from the Toronto International Film Festival following its world premiere due to «rights issues.» The film, inspired by the iconicBatman villain, stars Drew as a transgender stand-up comedian working in Gotham City in the DC universe.
The Peoples Joker premiered Wednesday night as a part of TIFF's Midnight Madness program. However, shortly after the premiere, the Joker parody film was pulled from the TIFF 2022 line-up and all future screenings have been cancelled.
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“The filmmaker has withdrawn this film due to rights issues. We apologize for any inconvenience," reads a statement on the TIFF website reads. «Current ticket holders will receive an email from TIFF customer relations with information on their purchase.” Drew hinted at potential issues on Tuesday before the premiere, writing on Twitter, “I have no clue how today goes and my team wants me to say nothing of course so I’ll stay vague…but whatever happens in the next few hours, I want you to know…if you’ve been waiting and aching to watch our movie, ur going to get to soon. Stay tuned and stay with me. Need ur help.”
In the interview with Collider, Drew discussed her many influences as well as her time in film school and working with comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Andre (Heidecker is also featured in the film). „I think this film can be 100% distributed. It is completely protected under fair use and copyright law. Like a parody law,“ Drew said when asked about the legality of distributing a movie like The Peoples Joker.»The only thing that makes it weird in both of those categories is nobody's ever taken characters and IP and really personalized it in this way. So I
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