It was shocking when Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix made a sequel to their Oscar-winning Joker film. However don’t anticipate 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 — at the very least 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 just a few years in the past once they gave Margot Robbie a Birds of Prey film to headline after Suicide Squad — Phillips replied, “It’s not likely 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, turning 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 the right way to inform it. (At one level, Phoenix was reportedly concerned about doing a Joker on Broadway.)
Phillips and Phoenix finally moved away from the concept of a Broadway present — however they maintained the idea of a musical, which grew to become the idea for the second movie, and a giant motive to herald Gaga to play the position of Harley Quinn within the movie. Whether or not that’s a raffle that pays off stays to be seen. Early monitoring numbers for the sequel predict it’ll open to considerably smaller field workplace than the primary Joker.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters this weekend.
Oscar Finest Image Winners That Bought Sequels
These large awards winners had been widespread sufficient to get their very own sequels. A few of these sequels had been hits. Others weren’t.
