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Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as the clown prince of crime and Harley Quinn, is inching ever nearer to its theatrical release. Whereas its stars are nonetheless coming to phrases with whether or no longer their musical sequel is in fact a musical, Phoenix is harboring reservations over whether or no longer he and director Todd Phillips have it in them to make it a trilogy.
In a recent interview with IGN, Phillips and screenwriter Scott Silver reflected on how Joker 2 came collectively. As Phillips recalls, he and Phoenix fell in admire with what they created with Arthur Fleck and rapidly began joking about where the character’s misadventures may well continue around the 30-day mark of the primary movie’s 55-day shoot. As IGN notes, Phoenix is generally against making sequels, so making Joker 2 came with its fair share of caveats.
“There was no way Joaquin was going to construct anything with the quantity two after it, even whenever you happen to say ‘à Deux,’ unless it was an entirely various and unstable [thing] and variety of swinging for the fences. So that variety of led the charge,” Phillips informed IGN. “I mean, we weren’t going to transfer and good write an anticipated sequel. Oh, that man who’s standing on the cop car is now working a crime syndicate in Gotham. No longer only would I no longer really necessarily have that pastime, nonetheless there’s no way Joaquin’s making that movie because he is aware of that wasn’t really Arthur Fleck, the Arthur Fleck that we all created.”
“He literally said to me, ‘I’m no longer going to construct this unless I’m as scared as I was on the primary one.’ He was worried on the primary movie the way you want an actor to be,” Phillips continued. “We variety of wrote a script that would variety of give him that feeling.”
Somewhere along their back-and-forth over Joker 2, Phillips recounted Phoenix suggesting they “construct this on Broadway or something.”
“He had this vision, and again, 50 to 80% of it was us good fucking around joking. And that’s variety of the creative course of. And then I’ll call Scott and meander, ‘What construct you assume about that?’ And we good leap around ideas. That’s good variety of how all individuals works,” Phillips said.
Critics have blended feelings about whether or no longer Phillip’s sophomore effort with Phoenix’s Joker was price all the hassle. One overview went so far as to say the movie dedicated the cardinal sin of wasting Lady Gaga’s talents. When asked at Joker 2‘s official Venice press conference whether or no longer it was in the cards to make a third Joker movie, Phillips left things up in the air.
“I don’t want to speak for Joaquin, nonetheless for me, the yarn of Arthur/Joker has been informed,” Phillips said, according to Vulture. “I can’t say certain or no, nonetheless it’s no longer necessarily my goal to stay in this space.”
Must nonetheless the fear of disappointing critics and audiences no longer be adequate to push Phoenix’s admire of Arthur into venturing into a third Joker movie, Phillips may well always meander the nuclear route of dangling a gay romance storyline over his head. If you know, you know.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4th.
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