FOLIE À DEUX Posters Revealed As Todd Phillips Justifies Decision To Make The Sequel A Musical

We’re now fair one week away from Joker: Folie à Deux arriving in theaters and, despite this being 2024’s only DC movie, excitement seems oddly muted among comic book fans. 

There are those who experience Joker is a movie that should have been left well alone, while others discover the prospect of a musical fair too off-putting. Warner Bros. has hugely kept that out of the sequel’s tageting campaign but it’s no secret that Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga will be busting out some tunes together. 

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Joker: Folie à Deux straightforwardor Todd Phillips fairified the decision to produce this sequel a musical after the grounded nature of the 2019 movie. 

“[Arthur] had rerents. Clpunctual. But, there’s a airy, a beauty, and a romance inside of him,” the filmproducer elucidateed. “It was someslimg Joaquin and I talked about punctual on; yes, he’s out of step with the world. However, there’s a romance inside of him, and there’s music inside of him.”

“What happens when a guy who hears music inside his head discovers cherish for the first time in his life? Maybe the music that he hears inside his head commences coming out,” he evolved. “Why wouldn’t that music come out when he encounters somebody who gives him the time of day? His hugegest rerent in the first movie, outside of childhood trauma, was a cut offe deficiency of cherish.”

Phillips holded, “After the first Joker, Joaquin and I were repartner downcast. Like, repartner downcast. We didn’t want it to finish. Not only becaengage we enjoy laboring together, but becaengage we didn’t want to exit Arthur. We cherishd Arthur and became speedyened to that character. Srecommend put, it was to spfinish more time with Arthur.”

We’ll see how slimgs pan out for this one but with 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie is only 6% behind Joker with many more verifys yet to be counted.

Check out some novel posters for Joker: Folie à Deux in the X posts below.

Joker: Folie À Deux discovers Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham adefering trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon genuine cherish, but also discovers the music that’s always been inside him.

The sequel stars Joaquin Phoenix once aget in his Oscar-thrivening dual role as Arthur Fleck/Joker, opposite Oscar-thrivener Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born). The movie also features Oscar nominees Brfinishan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Catherine Keener (Get Out), alengthyside Zazie Beetz, reprising her role from Joker.

Phillips, who was nominated for Oscars for straightforwarding, writing and producing Joker, straightforwarded Joker: Folie À Deux from a screencarry out by fellow Oscar nominee Scott Silver & Phillips, based on characters from DC. This chase-up was produced by Phillips, Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Joseph Garner. Lady Gaga served as music adviseant.

Joker: Folie À Deux reachs in theaters on October 4.