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Joker director Todd Phillips has confirmed a sequel is officially underway.In a post on Instagram on Tuesday (June 7), the director shared the cover of the script written by Phillips and collaborator Scott Silver, along with a photo of Joaquin Phoenix reading the screenplay.As revealed by the script, the sequel is titled Joker: Folie à Deux, which translates to “shared madness” or a shared delusional disorder. While it’s unclear how this applies to the film’s plot, some have speculated the sequel could introduce Joker’s troubled love interest Harley Quinn.Released in 2019, Joker provided an origin story for the DC villain through the lens of a psychological thriller.

Todd Phillips, who directed Joker, shared a photo of his star Joaquin Phoenix reading the script for the second film.The 51-year-old director photo of Phoenix showed the Walk the Line star reading the script while sitting on a comfortable-looking couch.He wore pinstripe pants, a black t-shirt and dark sunglasses. New movie:Todd Phillips, who directed Joker, shared a photo of his star Joaquin Phoenix reading the script for the second film (pictured 2019)His thinning hair was combed over to the right and his white beard was groomed into a well-kept, but still bushy, style.

posting a series of images to Instagram, including a red script cover with the title “Joker: Folie à Deux,” as well as a shot of Oscar-winning franchise star Joaquin Phoenix smoking while reading the screenplay. The script cover lists the writers as Phillips and Scott Silver, who both penned the first installment.The official Warner Bros.

Todd Phillips has written the next chapter in the Clown Prince of Crime's gritty, brutal tale of chaos and discord.Phillips took to Instagram on Tuesday to confirm that his Oscar-winning 2019 film is getting a sequel, penned by himself and Scott Silver — who also co-wrote the first film.Phillips shared a pair of snapshots, beginning with a pic of the script's cover page, revealing the sequel is tentatively titled A post shared by Todd Phillips (@toddphillips)The second snapshot in the slideshow was an artistic black-and-white candid pic of star Joaquin Phoenix -- who earned his Oscar for playing the title character — reading the script over while smoking a cigarette.The first — which was originally imagined as a standalone drama set in the universe but outside the cannon of the comics or the film adaptations — was set in the early '80s, and followed the mentally unstable failed clown Arthur Fleck as he spiraled into madness and sparked a violent riot in the city of Gotham.Not much is known about the plot of Phillips' forthcoming follow-up, outside of the title. Folie à Deux is a term that means a shared delusion or nearly identical mental disorder that presents in two different people.Whether the title refers to Joker's famously disturbed relationship with Batman or possibly his notoriously unhealthy relationship with love interest Harley Quinn remains to be seen.

The Joker will be making a comeback.

This has been building since before Toby Emmerich exited and Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy took the reins at Warner Bros. Joaquin Phoenix hasn’t quite signed a deal to reprise his role as the disturbed murderous anarchist Arthur Fleck in a sequel to the billion dollar grossing Joker,. but the film is a go. Director Todd Phillips revealed on Instagram that there’s a Joker sequel script he just wrote with Scott Silver and that Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for playing the title role, is reading it. That isn’t quite true; Phoenix read it awhile ago, and it has come down to making a rich deal for him to star in the genre-jumping sequel.

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Joaquin Phoenix is ready for a Joker sequel! The Hollywood star was asked if there was a potential storyline in the works, following the successful release of the first film, making over $1 billion at the box office around the world.The actor described the iconic character as “an interesting guy,” declaring that “there are some things we could do with this guy and could [explore] further.”And while he didn’t give any details about the new project, it was reported that filmmaker Todd Phillips had already been working on a possible script for the sequel, following a rumored deal that could have Phillips as a co-writer for the movie.“Phillips is in talks to reprise his role as director for a second Joker outing (he and Scott Silver, who penned