Director Todd Phillips posted on Instagram the first confirmation that the 2019 “Joker” sequel will advance on Tuesday, including the cover of the script, written by Phillips and Scott Silver, his collaborator on the first film, with the title that raises eyebrows. “Joker: Madness for Two”.
In the same post, Phillips included a photo of star Joaquin Phoenix reading the script.
A Warner Bros. spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Phillips’ Instagram post.
Phillips’ original “Joker” movie re-framed the iconic Batman villain in an anti-hero character studio about a troubled comic and part-time clown performer named Arthur Fleck who becomes a popular hero in Gotham City after attacking in acts of shocking violence. Grumpy, dark, and carefully avoiding the typical action rhythms of superhero cinema, the film was still a huge worldwide box office success, grossing more than $ 1 billion worldwide. He received 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Phillips and Best Adapted Screenplay by Phillips and Silver. Phoenix won the Oscar for Best Actor and Hildur Guðnadóttir won Best Original Soundtrack.
Shortly after the film’s 2019 debut, Phillips and Silver met with then-Warner Bros. filmmaker Toby Emmerich about a possible sequel. Since then, Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” has survived a pandemic closure and star Robert Pattinson contracted COVID the day after the film’s reboot, to become one of the world’s first box office hits. of the pandemic era, with a collection of 770.3 million dollars at the world box office. Both “Joker” and “The Batman” exist in separate continuities from the other DC adaptations: Reeves even released Barry Keoghan to play a different version of the Joker in a cameo role.
Although Phillips did not share any details of the plot about the new movie “Joker” in his Instagram post, the title offers some intriguing implications. Literally translated as “shared madness,” folie à deux is a secular term for a delusional shared disorder. This could refer to how Arthur’s villainy is widely accepted by Gotham City in the first film, but it could also suggest that the Phillips sequel will bring its own interpretation of the main (and really only) couple. of Joker in Life, Crime and Madness. Harley Quinn, who has been played in other DC adaptations by Margot Robbie (live action) and Kaley Cuoco (animation).
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