Suicide Squad Movie: Jared Leto As The Clown Prince?

Oscar winner Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) is hovering over the role of The Joker in Fury and "End of Watch" director David Ayer's film version of DC Entertainment's "Suicide Squad" comic book for Warner Bros says The Wrap.

The trade adds that Ryan Gosling was originally up for the role, but he was "unwilling to sign a deal with options for multiple movies"
  
 The Hollywood Reporter has published some quotes from an interview conducted just yesterday with Leto that are intriguing:

"I do [have my eye on one project]. I am excited about what's happening. There are incredible opportunities and I'm very grateful for them. I'm looking forward to making films again now that the tour is wrapping up. It's going to be an exciting 2015." 
 
 Leto added: "I've sworn to keep my mouth shut but I think that very shortly there will be something to talk about, that's for sure."

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 Joker was last portrayed by the late Heath Ledger who gave an Academy Award-winning performance in The Dark Knight.

Leto was also in the running to play the lead in Marvel's long gestating Doctor Strange movie--a role that Sherlock and "Star Trek Into Darkness" star Benedict Cumberbatch now circles

The comic centers on incarcerated villains from the DC universe being recruited as deniable assets by the Government to go on high-risk black ops missions in exchange for more lenient or even commuted sentences. Amanda Waller is in charge of the program.

Will Smith, Tom Hardy and "The Wolf of Wall Street" actress Margot Robbie are all reportedly fielding offers for "Squad". British model and actress Cara Delevingne may be playing The Joker's sidekick Harley Quinn. Quinn's character was not in the early drafts of the script, but that may change since Ayer is expected to perform re-writes.

 Jesse Eisenberg could reprise his role as Lex Luthor in the film says Deadline. Eisenberg plays Lex in Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice" and if the character shows up in 'Squad' it would link back to the DC Cinematic Universe which the film doesn't really have on the surface.

Dan Lin is producing the pic with Charles Roven from an initial script by Justin Marks.

The film has an August 5th 2016 release date planned.

Several of the characters have showed up on The CW's popular Arrow TV series and that trend will continue.