A superstar is in talks to join the Joker sequel as Harley Quinn, but it’s not even the most amazing part.
Well, this is a Hollywood twist that no one saw coming, and if you say you did, you’re probably lying.
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on a surprise casting move: Lady Gaga is in talks to join Joker sequel as Harley Quinn, the upset girlfriend of Joaquin Phoenix’s main character, Arthur Fleck / The Joker.
In the comics, Quinn was a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, where she met and became romantically involved with Joker, the couple wreaking havoc in Gotham. Joker’s first film ended with The Joker inside Arkham, but about to run away.
Gaga’s Harley Quinn would be different from the character Margot Robbie plays in the movies Birds of prey, Suicide Squad (2016) i The Suicide Squad (2021).
Gaga had worked before Joker director and co-writer Todd Phillips A star has been born. Phillips was the producer of Bradley Cooper’s version of the Oscar-nominated drama, and Cooper was the producer Joker. Phillips and Cooper worked in threes He hangs up movies together.
Gaga’s potential casting makes sense if you consider that THR also reports Joker the sequel will be a musical, an amazing game of the first Jokerwhich was dark, gloomy, and nihilistic.
Maybe, if the musical part comes out, the follow-up could be a rock opera with great emotional beats.
The first film already had a show, and its most famous scene featured Phoenix in a Bronx-scale choreographed dance that has now been colloquially renamed “The Joker Stairs.”
Phillips revealed last week the subtitle of Joker sequel will be Madness for twoposting it next to a photo of Phoenix reading the script.
THR said Phoenix’s involvement in the sequel is not yet blocked and that his team is still in negotiations with the study on his contract. It is very unlikely that another installment would have been made without Phoenix, who won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role.
JokerThe 2019 release was embroiled in a controversy over the film’s violence and tone with detractors arguing that Phillips ’film adores bad behavior.
TimeCritic and prominent film writer Stephanie Zacharek wrote: “The film cheers and glamorizes Arthur even when he shakes his head, falsely sad, at his violent behavior.”
Despite – or perhaps because of – the heated debate, Joker it became a hit with the public, especially men. He ended his box office with $ 1.07 billion in ticket sales.
He Joker the movies are part of the DC Extended Universe, which differs from its Marvel counterparts in that they are not necessarily connected.
There are two other Jokers in the DCEU, including Jared Leto’s version Suicide Squad and another played by Barry Keoghan who mocked the final credits scene The Batman.
The next DCEU films to be released will be Adam black in October, a Shazam sequel in December i Batgirl in 2023.