Joker Sequel: Todd Phillips Reveals Working Title, Joaquin Phoenix Reads Script in New Photos
Director Todd Phillips on Instagram on Tuesday posted the first confirmation that the sequel to 2019's 'Joker' is progressing, including the cover of the screenplay, which was written by Phillips and Scott Silver, his collaborator on the first film, with the surprising caption, " Joker" was written. : Foil a Deux. In the same post, Phillips included a photo of star Joaquin Phoenix reading the script. A Warner Bros. spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Phillips'
Instagram post. Phillips' original "Joker" film transformed the legendary Batman villain into an anti-hero character study about a struggling comedian and part-time clown named Arthur Fleck, who becomes a folk hero in Gotham City after engaging in shocking acts of violence.Moody, dark and carefully eschewing the typical action beats of superhero cinema, the film went on to be a huge global box office success, grossing over US$1 billion worldwide. He received 12 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Phillips, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Phillips and Silver. Phoenix won the Oscar for Best Actor and Hildur Guðnadóttir won Best Score. Shortly after the film's debut in 2019, Phillips and Silver met with then-Warner Bros.Film director Toby Emmerich on a possible sequel. Matt Reeves' The Batman has since survived a pandemic shutdown, and star Robert Pattinson contracted COVID the day after the film's reboot to become one of the first global blockbusters of the pandemic-era, grossing US 770.3 million worldwide. dollars in box office receipts. Both "Joker" and "The Batman" exist in separate continuities from the other DC adaptations: Reeves even cast Barry Keoghan to play a different version of the Joker in a
cameo.Although Phillips didn't reveal any details about the plot of the new "Joker" movie in his Instagram post, the title offers some interesting implications. Literally translated as “shared insanity,” folie à deux is a common term for shared delusional disorder. That could refer to how Arthur's villainess in the first film is being widely adopted by Gotham City, but it could also suggest that Phillips' sequel will bring to life his own take on Joker's main (and really only) sidekick in
and Madness , Harley Quinn, who has been played in other DC adaptations by Margot Robbie (live action) and Kaley Cuoco (animated).
That could refer to how Arthur's villainess in the first film is being widely adopted by Gotham City.