Joker 2 Director Feedback on Potential Standalone Movie for Woman Gaga’s Harley Quinn

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will get a accomplice in each romance and crime within the new film Joker: Folie à Deux. The film introduces Woman Gaga as a brand new incarnation of Harley Quinn, although director Todd Phillips is suggesting that followers shouldn’t get their hopes up about seeing the character getting her personal spinoff movie.

Per Selection, the director and stars of the Joker sequel had been requested questions whereas on the pink carpet on the film’s Hollywood premiere. Phillips was requested if he would need to develop a standalone film for Gaga’s “Lee,” as her model of Harleen Quinzel is referred to within the movie. The director urged that this wasn’t an avenue he was seeking to go down, feeling just like the Joker sequel is already a standalone movie in some ways in comparison with the primary film.

“For me, I’ve at all times thought that these two films form of exist as their very own factor,” he mentioned. “And, no. I do know you are making an attempt to get the following factor, however I do not need to go into that.”

The identical query was requested to Lawrence Sher, the cinematographer of each Joker movies. Whereas he famous how this resolution was finally as much as the studio, his reply was a bit extra optimistic than what Phillips had mentioned concerning the thought. Because the director of images said, “Wow. That is a Warner Bros. query, yeah, you have to ask them.” When requested if it was already on his calendar, Sher added, “I could not say, even when it was!”

Woman Gaga’s Model of Harley Quinn Is Distinctive

“The excessive voice, that accent, the gum-chewing and all that type of sassy stuff that’s within the comics, we stripped that away,” Phillips beforehand mentioned in a Selection interview about what made this model of Harleen Quinzel completely different from the earlier diversifications, resembling these portrayed by Margot Robbie within the DCEU and Kaley Cuoco in Harley Quinn. “We needed her to suit into this world of Gotham that we created from the primary film.”

Phillips wrote the screenplay for the Joker sequel with Scott Silver. Together with Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga within the lead roles, the film additionally stars Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Harry Lawtey, and Steve Coogan. Phillips produced alongside Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Joseph Garner.

The official synopsis for the film reads, “Joker: Folie à Deux finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. Whereas struggling together with his twin identification, Arthur not solely stumbles upon real love, but additionally finds the music that is at all times been inside him.”

Joker: Folie à Deux will premiere in film theaters on Oct. 4, 2024.

Supply: Selection