Joker director Todd Phillips commented on what would bring him back for a sequel to the Joaquin Phoenix film.
Warner Bros. and DC’s Joker offered audiences fresh and contemporary take on the Clown Prince of Crime’s origins. Of course, the Joaquin Phoenix film concluded just as the Joker embraced his new moniker and left room open for more stories with this version of the iconic villain.
However, director Todd Phillips noted that a Joker sequel is not in the works at the moment during an interview with the LA Times. However, Phillips added that he would be open to returning for a Joker sequel if it could have the same “thematic resonance” as the first:
“But it couldn’t just be this wild and crazy movie about the ‘Clown Prince of Crime’. It would have to have some thematic resonance in a similar way that this does. Because I think that’s ultimately why the movie connected, it’s what’s going on underneath. So many movies are about the spark, and this is about the powder. If you could capture that again in a real way, that would be interesting.”
It appears Joaquin Phoenix agrees with those who believe there is still much more to explore with this version of the Joker. In fact, the actor had jokingly told Phillips to begin working on a sequel, but a part of him was serious:
“In the second or third week of shooting, I was like, ‘Todd, can you start working on a sequel? There’s way too much to explore’. It was kind of in jest — but not really.”
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Here is the official synopsis for Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker:
Director Todd Phillips “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham.
Joker is now playing in theaters!
Source: Los Angeles Times
