A brand new article in Variety discussing director Todd Phillips‘ upcoming musical/character examine/courtoom drama/comic-book sequel Joker: Folie à Deux, features a few heretofore unknown teases—together with what transpires within the film’s opening moments.
Because the outlet reveals, the sequel begins with “a Looney Tunes-inspired” animated sequence, guest-directed by The Triplets of Belleville‘s Sylvain Chomet. Following, the story goes “hurtling via jail riots, courtroom faceoffs and a variety-show sequence that finds [Joaquin] Phoenix and [Lady] Gaga portraying a homicidal Sonny and Cher” because the Joker and Harley Quinn. In response to Phillips, “The aim of this film is to make it really feel prefer it was made by loopy folks. The inmates are working the asylum.”
The piece moreover confirms Folie à Deux is ready “two years after the primary movie,” and follows Arthur Fleck “dealing with the demise penalty” in a psych ward after his on-the-air homicide of speak present host, Murray Franklin. It’s there he meets a fellow affected person, Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Gaga), “who’s obsessive about him—or, reasonably, his alter ego, Joker. Arthur ditches his medicine and prances right into a fantasy world that usually performs just like the MGM musicals of yesteryear on acid.”
The outlet additionally reveals three of the songs the off-their-meds duo will carry out embody “Get Comfortable,” “For As soon as in My Life” and “That’s Life,” noting the Joker is “drawn to romantic ballads,” whereas Harley “prefers music about energy.” Phillips is fast to notice the movie received’t cease in its tracks to carry out acquainted numbers, although, since “many of the music within the film is basically simply dialogue. It’s simply Arthur not having the phrases to say what he desires to say, so he sings them as a substitute.”
Selection’s piece continues to explain Woman Gaga’s all-new, all-different efficiency as Harley Quinn. “The excessive voice, that accent, the gum-chewing and all that kind of sassy stuff that’s within the comics, we stripped that away,” in keeping with Phillips. “We wished her to suit into this world of Gotham that we created from the primary film.”
Gaga advised the commerce, “Todd took a really massive swing with this entire idea and with the script, giving the sequel to Joker this audacity and complexity. There’s music, there’s dance, it’s a drama, it’s additionally a courtroom drama, it’s a comedy, it’s comfortable, it’s unhappy. It’s a testomony to [Todd] as a director, that he would reasonably be inventive than simply inform a conventional story of affection.”
Regardless of doubtlessly kicking off a brand new Joker and Harley multi-media franchise, Phillips concludes the interview by stating he (presently) has no plans for a follow-up to Folie à Deux: “It was enjoyable to play on this kind of sandbox for 2 films, however I feel we’ve stated what we wished to say on this world.”
Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters October 4.
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