New Joker 2 photographs give us our first official take a look at Arkham Asylum, with director Todd Phillips releasing the recent pics by way of Instagram.
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Director Todd Phillips is celebrating the Christmas season by releasing two new official photographs from his much-anticipated sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. Right here they’re:
As you may see, the primary pic reveals Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck in his Arkham Asylum cell. The second reveals him in court docket, in full Joker make-up, as his court-appointed shrink, Dr. Harleen Quinzel, performed by Woman Gaga, seems on considerably adoringly.
Phillips has been good in how he’s been doling out official stills from the movie. Whereas Deadpool 3 has been battling the paparazzi posting spoiler photographs, Phillips, to fight this, has been releasing polished, official photographs that reveal simply sufficient to get followers excited however don’t spoil the premise both.
As beforehand reported, Joker: Folie à Deux is slightly uncommon so far as sequels go, with it poised to have some main musical numbers labored into the plot. Curiously, this notion didn’t actually ruffle feathers amongst followers, as for probably the most half, everybody – fanboy or not – appears to like Woman Gaga following her spectacular turns in A Star is Born and Home of Gucci and feels she’s ideally forged as Harley Quinn. I feel folks even have a whole lot of religion in Phillips at this level, as nobody actually anticipated (or needed) him to ship a standard sequel. The extra uncommon – the higher.
Phillips was closely impressed by two Martin Scorsese movies when he made the primary Joker: Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. To me, it seems like he’s taking heavy inspiration right here from Scorsese’s New York, New York, a quasi-musical that was a significant flop within the seventies however has since been re-evaluated as a masterpiece. Regardless of the case, anticipate Joker: Folie à Deux to be one of many most-talked-about motion pictures of the 12 months. Plenty of critics clutched their pearls when the primary film got here out. I bear in mind seeing it at TIFF and having many people from different web sites lecture me about how “harmful” it was. There was a legit try by some to take the film down a few notches, however it was all for nothing, because the movie was a field workplace smash. Those self same critics will doubtless love this film now that the cultural dialog has shifted considerably – however I digress.
Joker: Folie à Deux hits theaters on October 4th, 2024.