Officially, Lady Gaga will appear in ‘Joker 2’ with Joaquin Phoenix
The first Joker 2 teaser video shows Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker dancing
As just confirmed by a new teaser trailer Lady Gaga posted today, she is in talks for a part alongside Joaquin Phoenix in the Joker sequel. She recently played the lead in the 2021 film House of Gucci, which came after her Academy Award-nominated performance in A Star Is Born (2019). Joker: Folie à Deux, a Warner Bros. DC film directed by Todd Phillips, will be released in theaters in October 2024.
Earlier on June 13, Deadline reported that Oscar winner Lady Gaga, who most recently starred in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci, is in early negotiations to play Joaquin Phoenix's love interest in Warner Bros.'s Joker: Folie à Deux. Phoenix's contract for the next Joker movie has not yet been finalized, although we have heard that he is in advanced negotiations.
Although the narrative of the Joker sequel has not yet been revealed, we do know that Todd Phillips will return to helm. He collaborated on the writing with Scott Silver, much like they did on the first movie. Although her portrayal of the character would take place in a different DC world from that of Margot Robbie's in the Suicide Squad movies, it has been reported that Gaga will play Harley Quinn, the Arkham Asylum therapist who falls in love with her patient Arthur Fleck aka the Joker.
Fleck, a struggling stand-up comedian, began a downward spiral that resulted in the development of a legendary villain as Phillips' Joker, unveiled in 2019, watched. Phoenix won his first Oscar for the movie, which also earned Hildur Gunadóttir a medal for Best Original Score. The movie made more than $1 billion worldwide.
In the Warner Bros. In the Bradley Cooper musical drama A Star Is Born, which Phillips also produced, Lady Gaga famously received her first leading role. Recent roles for the actress and pop diva include playing Patrizia Reggiani in MGM and United Artists Releasing's House of Gucci and contributing the song "Hold My Hand" to Top Gun: Maverick, which has amassed over $750 million in worldwide box office receipts.
Joker1.. The most disappointing film of 2019
Before it even opened in theaters, Joker 1, a look inside the life of Batman's deranged arch-enemy, has managed to rank among the most criticized and defended films of the year.
The Todd Phillips-directed film, which features Joaquin Phoenix, has already been compared as an incel instruction manual by some of its outspoken detractors. Some moviegoers believe that the unfavorable reviews and responses are just another instance of social justice warriors going too far. Additionally, in recent days, the movie's producer Warner Bros. and relatives of those slain in the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, massacre have discussed the potential risk the movie poses to audiences.
The two trailers for the movie have started a full-fledged argument about it, which is evidence of how well-known the supervillain is. His heinousness and ghastliness make him Batman's most formidable adversary. His most outspoken detractors feel frightened and repulsed by these same traits, especially now that the ills of our world have gradually changed in that way.
But the argument over Joker isn't just about the movie; it's also about how we watch movies now, how we debate their worth, and our propensity to see movies in a way that contradicts the fundamental nature of art.
The response to Joker has been negative before. Batman's Joker has always been a terrifying character capable of great horrors, and his depiction in comic books has prompted debates about whether writers and artists sometimes overdo it when showing his villainous traits (such as his sadism, violence, and abusive relationship with Harley Quinn), even crossing the line into glamorization.
The Joker's genesis narrative is presented in the trailer in a comprehensible, sequential fashion. A final straw causes Arthur Fleck, a troubled man who just wants to make others laugh, to transform into the ghastly evil known as the Joker.
The whole trailer emphasizes Fleck's social clumsiness. We are supposed to believe that he is so unlikeable that even his own social worker no longer wants to work with him. Fleck's response is destructive.
You simply aren't listening, are you? As a video of him getting beat up while wearing a sad clown costume plays, Fleck informs her in an intensifying voiceover. "Every week, you ask the same questions."
Fleck transforms from a generally harmless nobody into a wicked somebody as a result of how he has been treated. According to the teaser, the Joker would not have existed if society had treated him better.
The Joker's most outspoken detractors are worried that by highlighting the persona in the present American political context, it would empower and energize a way of thinking that might inspire mass shootings.
The atmosphere of mass shootings in the US appears to be substantially to blame for the unfavorable responses to Joker. The El Paso shooting's white 21-year-old gunman had published an online manifesto containing xenophobic and racist language, and the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso in August 2019 resulted in a combined total of more than 30 fatalities and dozens of injuries. It's also difficult to avoid thinking about the Aurora, Colorado theater massacre in 2012 during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, another film set in the Batman world, or any of the 2,220 mass shootings that have occurred since the one at Sandy Hook, Connecticut, seven years ago.
"My concern is that this movie may inspire one individual who may be out there — and who knows whether it is only one — who is on the verge and wants to do a mass shooting. And it scares me," Sandy Phillips, who is not related to the filmmaker, said in an August 24 interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
Sandy Phillips' daughter died in the 2012 tragedy, and she is one of the relatives of Aurora victims pleading with Warner Bros. to take the movie's possible effects into account. The group wrote to the studio advising them to be careful with the film's themes and to assist organizations that help victims of gun violence by making donations.
In their evaluations, some critics have expressed worry about how the film depicts violence, particularly violence that is so entwined with our own lives.
In his review of Joker for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson succinctly summed up our contemporary connection to shootings and their perpetrators: "The American imagination has recently been concerned with the motivations of disillusioned white males who have turned violent — a country (or part of one) seeking to diagnose and explain them, one mass homicide after another — for so many terrible reasons." America of today is obsessed with criminals and their reasons, and popular culture is where we see this preoccupation most clearly.
