Todd Phillips Reveals First Look at ‘Joker 2’

There are a whole lot of adjustments happening behind the scenes at Warner Bros and DC Studios. Movies like Batgirl have been canceled, and initiatives like Wonder Woman 3 that had been within the early phases of growth have reportedly been shut down.

But for the upcoming Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, it’s full velocity forward. I suppose when a film makes $1 billion and wins a pair Academy Awards in opposition to a price range of lower than $100 million, you’re gonna make a sequel regardless of who’s in cost or what their plans are.

In the case of Folie à Deux, each director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix are again, joined by Lady Gaga as a brand new Harley Quinn to Phoenix’s Joker. As revealed by Phillips on Instagram, manufacturing on the movie — which isn’t due out for nearly two years — is formally underway. He shared a primary look at the brand new movie, which reveals a gaunt Phoenix getting shaved. You gotta love the colourful, pop artwork world of DC Comics, am I proper?

From what has leaked within the press to date, Joker: Folie à Deux flies within the face of nearly all the things new DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran wish to do. Their acknowledged plan is to make one big, cohesive fictional universes that crosses between films, TV, and video games. Joker, which is R-rated, is about in a separate actuality from every other DC film so far; its Bruce Wayne wasn’t Robert Pattinson or Ben Affleck or Michael Keaton, however a bit child. And now they’re including a Harley Quinn to the combination who isn’t Margot Robbie. Also, the movie is meant to be a musical!

But, once more, the success of Joker was doubtless too overwhelming to disclaim. Maybe they’ll construct a universe round Joker; or possibly they’ll make it the one exception to their rule of interconnectedness.

Joker: Folie à Deux is scheduled to open in theaters on October 4, 2024.