Director Todd Phillips has confirmed a sequel to the 2019 Oscar-winning supervillain movie, “Joker,” on Instagram.
Phillips, who directed the primary Joker installment, posted a cryptic message on Instagram displaying the duvet web page of a script titled “Joker: Folie à Deux.”
The second slide of the submit exhibits actor Joaquin Phoenix, who starred within the first installment, studying a script in his lap.
The upcoming movie’s obvious title, “Folie à Deux,” is a reference to a psychological dysfunction described within the U.S. National Library of Medicine as an “similar or comparable psychological dysfunction affecting two or extra people, often the members of an in depth household.”
Within the first movie, Phoenix performs Arthur Fleck, a distraught comic who ultimately descends into psychological anguish and criminality, main him to develop into the Joker, probably the most notorious villains within the DC Universe.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported in 2019 that Phillips was creating a second film concerning the Joker with Warner Bros. Photos, citing unnamed sources. The director’s first movie concerning the villain, who was made well-known by the Batman franchise, earned 11 Oscar nominations in 2019, with Phoenix successful the Oscar for Finest Actor in 2020.
Phoenix turned the second actor to win for the position after the late Heath Ledger gained a Best Supporting Actor award for his work in Christopher Nolan’s “The Darkish Evening” in 2009.
