With a billion dollars in worldwide revenue (for a 70 million budget) and two Oscars, including that of best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, Warner was not going to deprive himself of a Joker sequel.
This second part finally has a script and a provisional working title -
Folie à deux
-!
The director of the first feature Todd Phillips remains at the helm of the project posted on Instagram a photo of Joaquin Phoenix reading the manuscript.
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A medical term (in French in the text), “Folie à deux” designates a psychosis shared by several people.
The term had notably been the source of inspiration for a very good episode of the fifth season of the
X-Files series.
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Joker
, Joaquin Phoenix embodies chaos in a natural way”
The choice of this title makes some connoisseurs hope that this second part features the "fiancée" of the Joker, Harley Quinn.
In
Birds Of Prey,
she had the face of Margot Robbie.
For others, it is a sign that the violence and rebellion of the Joker would spread to all of Gotham, as the initial film suggested.
A Scorsese aesthetic
Released in 2019, Joker recounted the suffering, humiliation and descent into madness and release of Arthur Fleck, actor and clown struggling to find success and respect.
With his sad mountebank make-up, he was quick to call himself Joker and to become the symbol of Gotham's outcasts.
Rather than relying on an escalation of special effects and battles, Todd Phillips had drawn on the harsh, sticky and ultra-realistic aesthetic of Martin Scorsese's films of the 70s:
Taxi Driver, La Valse des puppets.
Presented at the Venice Film Festival,
Joker
left with the golden lion.
Read alsoIn
The Batman
, Matt Reeves explores a sensitive Bruce Wayne, “shaken by revenge”
Struggling to find the parade in the face of the extended universe of Marvel (the MCU), Warner, who owns the heroes of DC comics, has tried in vain to bring together Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and others in common adventures.
But the
Justice League
and
Suicide Squad
feature films have never been able to compete with the Avengers.
Darker, rooted in our reality, Todd Phillips'
Joker
and Matt Reeves' recent
The Batman
, on the other hand, have been completely embraced by the public.
In
The Batman
, whose cape is endorsed by Robert Pattinson, the Irish comedian played an alternate version of a young Joker, already imprisoned in Arkam Asylum.
