While Joker: Madness Agrave; Two is certainly one of the most anticipated films of the end of 2024, its director Todd Phillips reveals whether he plans to make a third me volet.
Joker: last lap?
In 2019, while the DCEU revealed all its weaknesses with the first re-release of Justice League and the movie Shazam!, Warner Bros. Discovery will experience immense success with a DC film not attached to the cinematic universe developed since Man of Steel. Its title: Joker. Directed by Todd Phillips, the film is heavily inspired by Taxi Driver and King of Comedy by the legendary Martin Scorsese and offers a reinvention of Batman's main antagonist, played by Joaquin Phoenix.Gotham has never been so close to the New York that Travis Bickle crosses, Arthur Fleck – the future Joker – shares many things in common with Rupert Pupkin. Robert De Niro, the great actor of New Hollywood and Martin Scorsese's favorite actor, gets the second role of Joker.
In the end, Joker was a hit: the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival – a first for a film inspired by comics – before winning the Oscar for Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Film Music for Hildur Guénadóttir, in a ceremony largely dominated by Parasite by Bong Joon-ho. Jokerwill gross $1.078 billion at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film in cinema history, before being surpassed in the summer of 2024 by Deadpool & Wolverine, which has just ended a five-year domination. Todd Phillips has also duly congratulated the Marvel teams.
While Joker: Folie à Deuxwill see Arthur Fleck/The Joker meet Harley Quinn in a musical film that will fully benefit from the experience of singer and actress Lady Gaga, who plays on screen the character created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm in the 1990s, fans are eager to discover this new feature film, which will contrast with what is generally expected of a film inspired by superhero comics. But Joker: Madness at Two could well be Arthur Fleck's last hurrah.
Indeed, at In an interview with the American media Variety, filmmaker Todd Phillips confided: “It was fun to play with this sandcastle over two films, but I think we've said everything we had to say about this world.” A very explicit way of saying: don't expect a third Joker film. These words echo previous statements from the director, who had confided that his Joker will not become the Clown Prince of Crime.