Joaquin Phoenix Is Shaky on Joker Changing into a Movie Trilogy

Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga because the clown prince of crime and Harley Quinn, is inching ever closer to its theatrical launch. Whereas its stars are nonetheless coming to phrases with whether their musical sequel is in fact a musical, Phoenix is harboring reservations over whether or not he and director Todd Phillips have it in them to make it a trilogy.

In a current interview with IGN, Phillips and screenwriter Scott Silver mirrored on how Joker 2 got here collectively. As Phillips recollects, he and Phoenix fell in love with what they created with Arthur Fleck and rapidly started joking about the place the character’s misadventures may proceed across the 30-day mark of the primary movie’s 55-day shoot. As IGN notes, Phoenix is mostly opposed to creating sequels, so making Joker 2 got here with its fair proportion of caveats.

“There was no method Joaquin was going to do something with the quantity two after it, even in the event you say ‘à Deux,’ until it was a completely completely different and dangerous [thing] and type of swinging for the fences. In order that type of led the cost,” Phillips instructed IGN. “I imply, we weren’t going to go and simply write an anticipated sequel. Oh, that man who’s standing on the cop automotive is now working a criminal offense syndicate in Gotham. Not solely would I not likely essentially have that curiosity, however there’s no method Joaquin’s making that film as a result of he is aware of that wasn’t actually Arthur Fleck, the Arthur Fleck that all of us created.”

“He actually stated to me, ‘I’m not going to do that until I’m as scared as I used to be on the primary one.’ He was petrified on the primary film the best way you need an actor to be,” Phillips continued. “We type of wrote a script that may type of give him that feeling.”

Someplace alongside their back-and-forth over Joker 2, Phillips recounted Phoenix suggesting they “do that on Broadway or one thing.”

“He had this imaginative and prescient, and once more, 50 to 80% of it was us simply fucking round joking. And that’s type of the artistic course of. After which I’ll name Scott and go, ‘What do you concentrate on that?’ And we simply bounce round concepts. That’s simply type of how everyone works,” Phillips stated.

Critics have mixed feelings about whether or not Phillip’s sophomore effort with Phoenix’s Joker was price all the hassle. One evaluate went as far as to say the movie dedicated the cardinal sin of losing Woman Gaga’s skills. When requested at Joker 2‘s official Venice press convention whether or not it was within the playing cards to make a 3rd Joker movie, Phillips left issues up within the air.

“I don’t need to converse for Joaquin, however for me, the story of Arthur/Joker has been instructed,” Phillips stated, according to Vulture. “I can’t say sure or no, nevertheless it’s not essentially my objective to remain on this house.”

Ought to the concern of disappointing critics and audiences not be sufficient to push Phoenix’s love of Arthur into venturing into a 3rd Joker movie, Phillips may all the time go the nuclear route of dangling a homosexual romance storyline over his head. If you know, you know.

Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4th.

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