In case you assume the thought of constructing Joker: Folie à Deux a musical is a weird selection, wait till you hear what Todd Phillips has in thoughts for the movie’s opening. Along with that includes musical parts, Phillips plans to open the highly-anticipated sequel with a Looney Tunes-inspired animated sequence.
Earlier than you freak out, know that Phillips recruited top-tier expertise for this daring selection. The legendary French artist and animator Sylvain Chomet helped Phillips create the animated sequence. If Chomet’s identify sounds acquainted, he’s the director of 2003’s The Triplets of Belleville and 2010’s The Illusionist, two positively good and award-winning animated options.
Along with Chomet’s animated sequence, Joker: Folie à Deux features a “variety show sequence” with Joker and Harley presenting a Sonny and Cher-like dynamic. These parts are a part of Todd Phillips’ radical strategy to Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to 2019’s field office-breaking Joker. The “jukebox musical” is much from something followers of the unique anticipated for a follow-up to the chaos-embracing drama, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a struggling comic pushed mad by society’s failures.
Joker: Folie à Deux can be “mostly a jukebox musical, including at least 15 reinterpretations of very well-known songs.” In hindsight, it could have been laborious to think about Joaquin Phoenix returning for extra of the identical, irrespective of what number of dump vehicles full of cash they drove to his home.
Along with Phoenix and Gaga, the movie additionally stars Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, and Harry Lawtey. Zazie Beetz returns to reprise her function as Sophie Dumond from the primary film, a love curiosity for Arthur. Official plot particulars stay a thriller, however the trailer paints a reasonably image, and it’s been stated that a lot of the sequel will happen inside Arkham Asylum, the place we left Arthur within the final movie. It’s inside Arkham the place Arthur meets Harleen Frances Quinzel. After escaping, Arthur and Harley resow the seeds of chaos in Gotham Metropolis, a corrupted metropolis constantly on the breaking point.
What do you concentrate on Joker: Folie à Deux opening with a Sylvain Chomet-animated Looney Tunes-style sequence? Can this film get any extra questionable? Tell us what you assume within the feedback part beneath.
