After the recent whirlwind of whether Todd Phillips was helming a sequel to Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker as well as other DC origin stories, the director has denied the meetings ever happened.
Director Todd Phillips recently addressed the conflicting news reports of whether Joker was getting a sequel alongside other DC origin stories. In a report first published by THR, Todd Phillips’ Joker was supposedly set to receive a sequel alongside the director’s planned projects for other characters to get a similar treatment. After Deadline published a conflicting story seemingly debunking the news, fans were understandably confused. But Todd Phillips recently confirmed that no meetings for a Joaquin Phoenix Joker sequel had taken place.
At an awards screening of Todd Phillips’ Joker the director explained to the audience that the news “came out of nowhere.” He explained that the meeting it referred to never took place and no serious conversations have happened. Todd Phillips acknowledged that since the movie made $1 billion against a $60 million budget the idea of a sequel had obviously been briefly discussed, but not in an official capacity. He also went on to explain that neither Joaquin Phoenix or Scott Silver have a deal for a sequel. Take a look at director Todd Phillips denying the sequel to Joker below.
“Yeah that was written about today, and I have to be honest, it came out of nowhere. It referred to a meeting that was never had. I thought it was anticipatory at best. Obviously, sequels have been discussed when a movie that cost $60 million made $1 billion, but we have not had any serious conversations about it. We don’t have a deal with Joaquin, they don’t have a deal with me and the writer. I don’t know where that came from, honest to God. It’s a hard thing to refute when you don’t have a Twitter account, and you’re not really out there. You just go, ‘Ok, this will disappear in 24 hours, let’s move on.’”
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Here is the official synopsis for 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 fractured society. 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, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham.
Joker is now playing in theater. Stay tuned for more updates on the Joker sequel, Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips.
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