Joker 2: Christopher Nolan opposed this bloody idea of ​​the film

Joker Folie à Deux is just like its main character: chaotic, disorganized and unloved. The sequel to the excellent 2019 film doesn't convince anyone, neither the public nor the critics. It has just broken a catastrophic record that Warner Bros. is going to have a hard time digesting… And the cherry on the cake is that a bloody idea for the film was adopted despite Christopher Nolan's opposition.

According to Christopher Nolan, this bloody idea of ​​Joker 2 was reserved for Heath Ledger

By all accounts, Joker Folie à Deuxshould never have seen the light of day. The return of Arthur Fleck, still played by Joaquin Phoenix, in front of Todd Phillips' camera ends up as a terrible failure, both at the box office and with critics.Filmed as a musical, his romantic encounter with Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn is punctuated by a soundtrack that you can find here . Ironically, it ends as it should have ended in 2019, when the first film was released. The ending of the original Joker script showed the main character slashing his face in front of a crowd of his supporters. An idea adopted in the sequel, with a man carving a bloody smile on himself.

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At the time, Christopher Nolan, the director of The Dark Knight, opposed it, believing that only his Joker, that of the late Heath Ledger, could slash his face. But the filmmaker was no longer at Warner Bros., and so there was no resistance to this idea for Folie à Deux. About Todd Phillips, a studio insider told The Hollywood Reporter :

He always trusted his instincts, and that got him pretty far. He thought people would get the joke.

After the recent failure of Mad Max: Furiosa, Warner Bros. wanted to turn things around… and listen to the advice of its best directors!