Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips on how Arthur Fleck would react to assembly “alpha male” Batman.
Bruce Wayne remains to be a toddler in Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux, so the films naturally happen in a interval earlier than Batman. However how would Arthur Fleck react if he got here face-to-face with the actual Batman?
Joker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips has just a few ideas on the matter. “I think Arthur would be in awe of the alpha male that is Batman. I really do,” Phillips advised IGN. “I think Arthur would look up and appreciate it. I think he’d be in awe of that.”
Phillips believes “Arthur at all times had a fascination with males relaxed, and he isn’t a person relaxed. [Robert De Niro’s] Murray Franklin within the first film was a person relaxed. He most likely noticed the blokes he labored with as males relaxed, and that was the one factor that Arthur might by no means be was a person relaxed.“
It’s extremely unlikely that we’ll ever see Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker face off in opposition to Batman, as Phillips has mentioned he doesn’t intend on returning for Joker 3. “It was fun to play in this sort of sandbox for two movies,” he mentioned, “but I think we’ve said what we wanted to say in this world.” Phillips has beforehand mentioned that he expects the ending of Folie à Deux to be unsettling for some. “For the people that have seen this movie in general … at the end, they sit and they don’t move for about three to five minutes,” Phillips mentioned throughout a latest Q&A. “Then they text me, the ones that know me, or email me and go, ‘I need a minute to process the movie.’” Phillips added, “I think it’s going to leave you with a very unsettling … I think it’s unsettling.”
Along with Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga, Joker: Folie À Deux stars Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, and Harry Lawtey. Zazie Beetz additionally returns to reprise her function as Sophie Dumond from the primary film, a love curiosity for Arthur. Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, however it’s been mentioned that a lot of the sequel will happen inside Arkham Asylum, which is the place we left Arthur within the final movie. Joker: Folie à Deux will hit theaters on October 4th.
