Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga because the clown prince of crime and Harley Quinn, is inching ever closer to its theatrical launch. Whereas its stars are nonetheless coming to phrases with whether their musical sequel is in fact a musical, Phoenix is harboring reservations over whether or not he and director Todd Phillips have it in them to make it a trilogy.
In a current interview with IGN, Phillips and screenwriter Scott Silver mirrored on how Joker 2 got here collectively. As Phillips remembers, he and Phoenix fell in love with what they created with Arthur Fleck and shortly started joking about the place the character’s misadventures might proceed across the 30-day mark of the primary movie’s 55-day shoot. As IGN notes, Phoenix is mostly opposed to creating sequels, so making Joker 2 got here with its fair proportion of caveats.
“There was no method Joaquin was going to do something with the quantity two after it, even in case you say ‘à Deux,’ except it was a completely completely different and dangerous [thing] and form of swinging for the fences. In order that form of led the cost,” Phillips informed IGN. “I imply, we weren’t going to go and simply write an anticipated sequel. Oh, that man who’s standing on the cop automobile is now working against the law syndicate in Gotham. Not solely would I probably not essentially have that curiosity, however there’s no method Joaquin’s making that film as a result of he is aware of that wasn’t actually Arthur Fleck, the Arthur Fleck that all of us created.”
“He actually mentioned to me, ‘I’m not going to do that except I’m as scared as I used to be on the primary one.’ He was petrified on the primary film the way in which you need an actor to be,” Phillips continued. “We form of wrote a script that might form of give him that feeling.”
Someplace alongside their back-and-forth over Joker 2, Phillips recounted Phoenix suggesting they “do that on Broadway or one thing.”
“He had this imaginative and prescient, and once more, 50 to 80% of it was us simply fucking round joking. And that’s form of the artistic course of. After which I’ll name Scott and go, ‘What do you concentrate on that?’ And we simply bounce round concepts. That’s simply form of how everyone works,” Phillips mentioned.
Critics have mixed feelings about whether or not Phillip’s sophomore effort with Phoenix’s Joker was price all the trouble. One overview went as far as to say the movie dedicated the cardinal sin of losing Girl Gaga’s abilities. When requested at Joker 2‘s official Venice press convention whether or not it was within the playing cards to make a 3rd Joker movie, Phillips left issues up within the air.
“I don’t need to communicate for Joaquin, however for me, the story of Arthur/Joker has been informed,” Phillips mentioned, according to Vulture. “I can’t say sure or no, nevertheless it’s not essentially my aim to remain on this house.”
Ought to the concern of disappointing critics and audiences not be sufficient to push Phoenix’s love of Arthur into venturing into a 3rd Joker movie, Phillips might all the time go the nuclear route of dangling a homosexual romance storyline over his head. If you know, you know.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4th.
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