Rumors are swirling that Joker may be getting a sequel. The heavily-meme’d 2019 movie starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, an individual with a personal draw back with a society who ends up performing stand-up on television and dancing on some stairs. Directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover trilogy) and from a screenplay co-written by Phillips and Scott Silver (X-Males Origins: Wolverine), the movie was even nominated for an Academy Award for “Biggest Tailor-made Screenplay.”
Nonetheless no matter reaching area office success no matter an R-rating (the movie was launched in theaters a few months upfront of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic), the announcement of a possible sequel raises a few questions, like “does Joker desire a sequel” and “what did we do to deserve this?”
With a gritty tone that pulls on DC Comics tales like The Prolonged Halloween and Batman: Yr One, Phoenix’s mannequin of Joker might match into the model new franchise’s story. Extra, whereas it is a good break to see Batman face off in opposition to some non-clown antagonists, it seems unlikely that Pattinson’s Darkish Knight won’t end up going by way of off in opposition to some mannequin of the Clown Prince of Crime. In that case, it is perhaps potential that Phoenix reprises the place.
How About Birds of Prey 2 Instead?
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Nonetheless there could also be one DC Comics villain-centered movie that fully deserves a sequel: Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. This 2020 movie, which was directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christian Hodson, observed Joker’s ex-girlfriend, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) workforce up with characters like Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winsted), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), and Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) to have the ability to defeat Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor), a rich white dude who thinks society has wronged him (do not fret, he’ll get blown to bits by a grenade on the end – oops, spoilers for a two-year-old movie that could be streamed unedited on HBO Max correct now).
Whereas Birds of Prey did not perform along with Joker did on the sector office (and there are causes for this outside of the film’s prime quality, sorry folks), it nonetheless managed to earn twice its funds. Plus, Birds of Prey had a killer soundtrack, which debuted at amount 23 on the US Billboard 200, demonstrating that area office earners mustn’t the one measure for achievement on the subject of superhero movement footage. Did Joker have a monitor on its soundtrack by Megan Thee Stallion and Normani? Didn’t assume so!
Based mostly on rumors, Phillips struck a deal to co-write Joker 2 in May 2021, nonetheless no concrete updates have been launched since. There was one different rumor that manufacturing on the Clown Prince’s second outing will begin in 2023, nonetheless right here is to hoping the ex-Clown Princess will get her due on the massive show display in its place (in any case, the sufferer, not the psychopath, is on a regular basis the additional attention-grabbing character in these tales, and he or she has further room for a multi-movie character arc that doesn’t merely include senseless violence).
Aside from, Joker was so very decided to be seen as a “standing film,” considerably than “solely a superhero movie,” {{that a}} second outing seems senseless even for the Crown Prince of Senselessness. There’s a motive there was such a giant advertising marketing campaign to get the movie nominated for Academy Awards after its debut. Although further superhero motion pictures possibly deserve recognition, this one didn’t require extra rallying just because it was a superhero film.
Although it is silly to make such arbitrary distinctions of top quality based solely on type, and such presumptions say further about these which can be making them than the movies themselves, one reality stays salient: standing movement footage don’t get franchise sequels. Joker can not have it every strategies: if it needs to be “completely completely different” than completely different superhero movement footage, it must be completely completely different, and it may start by not giving us one different cash-in sequel!
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Rebecca Kaplan (she/he) has a JD and an MS nonetheless believes comics do further good than laws. His work could also be found at Prism Comics, MovieWeb, Geek Woman Authority, PanelxPanel, StarTrek.com and Comics Bookcase, and in Double Drawback: Being LGBTQ and a Minority, which she co-authored collectively along with his partner, Avery Kaplan.
