And now, for the sequel that Phillips has been promising since his film became a huge box office success, as well as a critical success, everything indicates that he will add a third genre, also quite unusual for this type of production: the musical.
As published by The Hollywood Reporter, Lady Gaga is in the first talks to co-star with Joaquin Phoenix in the second part of “The Joker”, whose first chapter left Warner with a collection of one billion dollars in 2019.
Phillips wrote the screenplay with the original’s co-writer Scott Silver. In social networks, the director anticipated the title of the new project, “Joker: Folie à deux” (or “madness of two”), which alludes to the clinical term, widely used by Freud, for the mental disorder that usually affects to a sickly symbiotic couple. However, despite the fact that a Joker without Joaquin Phoenix would be inconceivable, since the actor was seen reading the script for the second part on social networks, Warner has not yet confirmed the signing of a contract with him. According to the aforementioned publication, the study has not yet reached a contractual agreement with the actor, whose somewhat complicated character could be seen in his Oscar acceptance speech. Instead, the negotiations with Lady Gaga are much more advanced.
The details about the characteristics of the character in the second part have not been revealed, although it transpired that he will have an abusive relationship with his psychiatrist in the asylum, Dr. Harley Quinn, who falls in love with him and becomes his accomplice in some misdeeds. It is also not known if the book will use other comic characters, despite the fact that in the first part there was a scene in which the butler Alfred and the child Bruno Díaz (or Bruce Wayne), the future Batman, appeared.
If an agreement is reached, Gaga will play Dr. Quinn, a character who appeared in other DC Comics films played by Margot Robbie, such as in the recent “The Suicide Squad” (2021) and other titles.
The original project, a film with a dark character, was a descent into madness between “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy”, both by Martin Scorsese (the great enemy of comics in cinema), set in a city in decline by the late 1970s. Commercial prospects were insecure and the budget was $60 million. Awards at festivals, most notably the initial Golden Lion in Venice, helped propel the film into a record-breaking opening weekend. It ended its run in theaters as the fourth highest-grossing R-rated (restricted) film of all time. Phillips previously produced “A Star Is Born,” a 2018 remake of the classic with Judy Garland, starring “The Joker” producer Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. That would explain the unusual decision to also turn the story of this historical arch-villain into a musical, beyond the fact that no one explains what this could look like.
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