As we get ready for the return of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker next month in Joker: Folie à Deux, we’re already wondering if it will be the last we see of this incarnation Gotham’s Harlequin of Hate.
And it seems like it is.
In a recent interview, Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux writer and director Todd Philips reveals what will be and what almost was and how the sequel became a musical after the first movie’s obvious homage to 70s thrillers such as Taxi Driver and King of Comedy.
“When we started really thinking about [doing a sequel in the form of a Broadway show], we realised it takes four years to put something like that together. And is Joaquin really going to give six months of his life to do that every night onstage?
“Then we thought about doing it at the Carlyle as sort of a smaller thing. But COVID hit.”
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It’s an intriguing idea for sure and I can certainly see how that idea led to the musical crime thriller we’re going to see in a few short weeks.
But what of the future? Will we ever see Arthur Fleck AKA Joker, ruling Gotham’s crime underground in a third outing?
Philips makes it clear he had no plans of having the character become Batman’s arch nemesis but rather he wanted him to stay as this unique version of the character: “We didn’t want to have him as the clown prince of crime or running a syndicate of criminals.”
So… will we get a third movie? “It was fun to play in this sort of sandbox for two movies, but I think we’ve said what we wanted to say in this world,” Philips says… so that’s a ‘no’, then?
Hmmmmmmmmmm…
Thoughts? Let me hear them…
Source: Variety
Marc
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