Warner Bros. Pictures confirms that Joker 2 will be a musical movie. The first superhero movie to do so in its entire history.
As reported The Hollywood Reporter, Joker 2 it will be a musical Todd Phillips has been co-writing the script for the sequel to DC Comics beside Scott Silver. Finally, that script was shown recently. Last week, the filmmaker revealed on social media the title of the new project. The film will be called Joker: Folie a Deux. This title refers to a medical term that describes an identical or similar mental disorder that affects two or more people, usually members of the same family.
Although in the image of the same publication that was seen on social networks it showed joaquin phoenix reading the script Joker 2The truth is that the actor’s participation in the sequel to the Batman villain is not one hundred percent confirmed. sources close to Warner Bros. Pictures They stated in The Hollywood Reporter that the studio has not yet closed the legal agreement with the actor. We will have to wait soon to find out if, contractually, Warner agrees to Joaquin Phoenix’s demands.
Warner Bros. will give more budget to the sequel
As we have said, they have confirmed that Joker 2 it will be a musical. When Warner Bros. Pictures made the first film, the project faltered in its infancy. It was a dark and violent character piece. A descent into madness in the style of Taxi driver Y the king of comedy set in a decaying city in the late 1970s. Commercial prospects for the studio were dim. So they only gave Todd Phillips $60 million to make his movie.
By the time it premiered in October 2019, joker was on a wave of film festival adulation. This helped propel the film on its opening weekend. There was no precedent for such a bombshell. In just a few days, box office analysts changed all their predictions. He finished his ‘box office’ as fourth highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Additionally, she earned eleven Oscar nominations. Little joke.
That Joker 2 be a musical is no joke. Todd Phillips has previously produced A star has been born beside Bradley Cooperwho in turn is the producer of the film Clown Prince of Crime.