text: Jared Leto's take on the Joker made his first appearance via David Ayer's Twitter. (Photo: twitter.com/DavidAyerMovies) 
   
   If you're going to play the Joker, you might as well look as nutty as humanly possible. 
   
   Oscar winner Jared Leto has been teasing the look of his take on the Clown Prince of Crime on social media recently, but Suicide Squad director David Ayer gave fans the first look at the actor in full Joker mode Friday via Twitter. 
   
   "The Suicide Squad wishes you a Happy Anniversary Mr. J!" Ayer wrote, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Batman supervillain's first appearance. (Batman No. 1 came out in April 1940.) 
   
   Leto's appearance is suitably frightening for the first time on screen since the late Heath Ledger's Oscar-worthy performance in 2008's The Dark Knight. 
   
   In addition to neon green hair, the actor is sporting pale skin, silver teeth, one purple glove and red lipstick. The tattoos are iconic of the Joker as well, from the playing cards and many uses of "Ha" all over his left side to the toothy grin on his right arm and harlequin skull on his chest — most likely an ode to his Suicide Squad girlfriend Harley Quinn, played by Margot Robbie. (Also interesting: the script "Damaged" on his forehead.) 
   
   In theaters Aug. 5, 2016, Suicide Squad began filming earlier this month and also stars Will Smith as Deadshot, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang and Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg. 
   
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target: – Marking an anniversary by sharing a photo on Twitter is a pretty routine thing to do, but Suicide Squad director David Ayer did just that in a pretty atypical way yesterday. He marked the Joker's April 25, 1940, comic book debut by tweeting the first image released of Jared Leto as Joker, the role he's playing in the film. It's a Joker complete with green hair, crimson lips, nasty teeth, and a tattoo-heavy body. Among the ink: "HA" repeated over and over, and a cursive "Damaged" on the forehead. Rolling Stone reports the look was inspired by Batman: The Killing Joke, and points out that it's not the first time Ayer has referenced Alan Moore's graphic novel. That leads the magazine to speculate that Leto's turn as the Joker in the film—due Aug. 5, 2016—will hew closer to Moore's Joker, a bust-of-a-stand-up comic who is disfigured and goes crazy in the span of a single day. USA Today also calls out a harlequin skull tattoo on Leto's chest, which it sees as "most likely an ode to his Suicide Squad girlfriend Harley Quinn." She's played by Margot Robbie. The rest of the big-name cast includes Will Smith as Deadshot, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, and Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg. What they'll be doing, per the IMDB description: "A secret government agency recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in exchange for clemency."