‘Suicide Squad’ villains Leto and Robbie will team up again for a new Joker movie

Another day, another Joker project.

Just hours after it was announced that Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese are developing a Joker origin story for the screen, Warner Bros./DC said that Jared Leto will return to play the Clown Prince of Crime in a new movie.

Even more encouraging, Margot Robbie will return to play Harley Quinn in the project, the Hollywood Reporter first reported.

And considering how much of Leto and Robbie’s chemistry got criminally left on the cutting-room floor of “Suicide Squad,” a film centering on their Joker and Harley villains could prove very welcome to the DC cinematic universe.

Such a film would be released after a “Suicide Squad” sequel, reports said.

The “This Is Us” team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are said to be in final negotiations to write and direct the untitled Joker/Harley film. Their NBC family drama is up for 11 Emmy Awards next month.

Ficarra and Requa directed 2011’s “Crazy, Stupid, Love” — which might well be the best alternate title for any film starring DC Comics’ insanely intertwined Bat-villains.

The filmmakers have worked with Robbie twice before — on 2015’s “Focus” and another comedy, last year’s “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.”

In wonderfully cheesy shorthand worthy of Robert Altman’s Hollywood satire “The Player,” one insider told Hollywood Reporter that the new Joker/Harley film will be in the vein of “‘When Harry Met Sally’ on Benzedrine.”

Robbie had been attached to David Ayer’s DC Comics film “Gotham City Sirens,” but the status of that project is unclear.

The bigger picture is that Warner Bros. wants to build its DC universe while also creating stand-alone films, similar to the way Disney/ Lucasfilm handles its “Star Wars” films.