Maxance Vincent
The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has been released online. Directed by Todd Phillips, with a screenplay written by Phillips and Scott Silver, the movie will star Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Steve Coogan, Ken Leung, and Harry Lawtey.
The teaser premiered at CinemaCon during a hotly-anticipated panel, in which director Todd Phillips thanked the exhibitors for continuing to support Joker after the film received backlash. The rest was history. Not only did the movie make over $1 billion at the worldwide box office, but it was a smashing success at the Academy Awards, winning Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar for his turn as Arthur Fleck. It also won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Best Film.
Here’s hoping the second film can recapture that success, but it’s clear the combined star power of Phoenix and Gaga will make it a box-office smash.
You can watch the trailer below and see the movie only in theatres on October 4:
As soon as Joker became an awards juggernaut, I had two thoughts:
1) All of the promises from Todd Phillips that this was intended to be a standalone feature will go right out the window. This was absolutely getting a sequel.
2) Given my frustrations with the first movie, I don’t see myself being interested in a sequel unless it goes so far in a weird, anti-commercially mainstream, potentially alienating direction that watching it spiral into something genuinely risky might be a thrilling experience. But come on, what are the odds that kind of sequel would ever be made?
Damn me… it looks like that’s exactly what happened.
Agreed. I somehow now am actually almost looking forward to it.
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