It was shocking when Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix made a sequel to their Oscar-winning Joker film. However don’t count on there to be a trilogy.
Talking on the Los Angeles premiere for Joker: Folie à Deux to The Hollywood Reporter, Phillips made it fairly clear {that a} Joker 3 is not coming — a minimum of not from him. Requested whether or not he had any plans to spin off Woman Gaga’s model of Harley Quinn from Folie à Deux into her personal movie — as DC Studios did a couple of years in the past after they gave Margot Robbie a Birds of Prey film to headline after Suicide Squad — Phillips replied, “It’s probably not the place this film is headed for me. I really feel like my time within the DC Universe was these two movies.”
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Phoenix gained an Oscar for the primary Joker, which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and grossed over $1 billion, changing into the highest-grossing R-rated film in historical past to that point. Tellingly, Phoenix and Phillips had been each open about their curiosity in making a sequel from the start. It was only a matter of determining what story to inform and methods to inform it. (At one level, Phoenix was reportedly thinking about doing a Joker on Broadway.)
Phillips and Phoenix ultimately moved away from the concept of a Broadway present — however they maintained the idea of a musical, which turned the idea for the second movie, and an enormous cause to usher in Gaga to play the position of Harley Quinn within the movie. Whether or not that’s a big gamble that pays off stays to be seen. Early monitoring numbers for the sequel predict it is going to open to considerably smaller field workplace than the primary Joker.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters this weekend.
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