We’ve bought just a few new photographs to share with you from director Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie À Deux, and so they put the highlight on Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) and Harley Quinn (Girl Gaga) in court docket, a doable breakout from Arkham Asylum, and extra.
Within the movie, Arthur Fleck is institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. Whereas struggling along with his twin identification, Arthur not solely stumbles upon real love, but additionally finds the music that is at all times been inside him.
Arthur varieties a powerful relationship with Quinn and collectively they embark on a journey full of violence and music.
Phoenix talked about what impressed him to make the sequel saying: “It’s the one manner that I can do any film. If it doesn’t really feel prefer it’s harmful, if there’s not a superb probability that you just’re gonna fail spectacularly then… what’s the purpose?”
Phillips added: “That was actually the explanation to do it. The one purpose Joaquin would even do a sequel is that if it felt horrifying to him. One factor he actually bought off on within the first film was this worry, day-after-day, this nauseous worry of like, ‘What are we fucking doing?’
“He didn’t need it to be straightforward. And he wished to really feel as scared on this one. He goes, ‘Nicely, if I’m gonna do it, I simply need to really feel that it couldn’t work.”
Phillips goes on to say that he doesn’t see this film as a sequel, saying: “I don’t consider it as a sequel. Hangover 2 was a sequel. So usually a sequel is extra of the identical, simply greater.
“In fact [Folie À Deux] is a sequel, nevertheless it felt like we have been making one thing totally totally different. It’s tonally and inherently one thing far more totally different.
“The primary one subverted the expectations of what it was. So how do you try this once more? I at all times stated, early on, the movie ought to really feel as if it was made by loopy folks. Just like the inmates are operating the asylum.
“It does really feel like an enormous swing. You simply go, ‘Nicely, f-ck it. Why not? What are all of us doing right here, if not to try this?’”
The film additionally stars Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond, with Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, and Brendan Gleeson who can be taking part in undisclosed characters.
Joker: Folie á Deux is scheduled for launch on October 4, 2024.
