Is the Joker sequel a musical? Director Todd Phillips clarifies things.
Joker Folie à Deux helmer Todd Phillips opens up about why he doesn't necessarily view the film as a sequel.
The Hollywood Reporter continued their Directors Roundtable series with an in-depth discussion between Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Todd Phillips (Joker), Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Lulu Wang (The Farewell), Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story) and Fernando Meirelles (The Two Popes). The hour-long interview covers a wide range of interesting topics about filmmaking and the entertainment industry, with a good chunk of time devoted to the current state of movies in the streaming era. Scorsese goes into what he feels has changed about the industry for better and for worse, illustrating the fact that it took his star-studded film The …
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The Joker director clears up this week's tangled web of conflicting Joker 2 reports.
Joker director Todd Phillips has a lot to celebrate about. His film, a hardboiled take on the popular DC Comics archvillain, recently became the first R-rated film to make over $1 billion. It received lots of praise from fans and industry members alike, especially for its central Joaquin Phoenix performance. And now, another celebrated filmmaker of dark narratives about broken men just publicly praised his work. As IndieWire reported, director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) wrote Phillips and his creative team an effusive letter complimenting the hell out of their work on Joker. Phillips was screening Joker in Los …
Despite a major report that surfaced yesterday morning, it appears that Joker 2 is far from a done deal. Joker director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have been talking about the idea of a sequel on and off the entire press run for the film, coming around to the notion of continuing the story—as long as the sequel could be as thematically rich and character-centric as the first movie. Phoenix even made his own posters for a Joker 2 during filming, so it sounds like the actor was keen on reprising his stunning role. So it wasn’…
Joker director Todd Phillips clears the air over conflicting reports concerning a possible sequel, saying no deal is in place just yet.