When Does the Film "Joker" (2019) Take Place?
"Joker" is a crime film written by Todd Phillips with Scott Silver [partially adapting "Batman: The Killing Joke" (1988) by Alan Moore] that released October 3rd, 2019. So when is "Joker" set?
It takes place on an alternate timeline of the fictional DC Films Universe in the year:
We know this because there is a major garbage strike and, while Gotham City is a fictional place, it's real-world basis has long been accepted to be partially the American Eastern urban centers Chicago/Jersey City/New York City, and New York City does have a history of sanitation strikes.
1981 AD
We know this because there is a major garbage strike and, while Gotham City is a fictional place, it's real-world basis has long been accepted to be partially the American Eastern urban centers Chicago/Jersey City/New York City, and New York City does have a history of sanitation strikes.
Furthermore, the real-world New York City Department of Sanitation garbage strike of 1981 AD began on December 1st, 1981 AD and ended December 17th, 1981 AD so the movie probably takes place entirely in December of 1981 AD.
More specifically, at the end of the narrative, as the Wayne family walk past a poster for Excalibur. "Blow Out" (1981) "Zorro ? Gay Blade" (1981) the films "Blow Out" (1981) and "Zorro the Gay Blade" (1981) and, "Excalibur" (1981) All of those movies were released in 1981 AD in the real world, which means it must be summer? of 1981 AD. This means it almost certainly can't be either of the garbage strikes of 1968 AD or 1975 AD.
