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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.

Netflix UK line-up for April 2022 has been released – scroll down to see the full list.Ozark fans will be pleased to see part two of the crime drama final season landing on April 29, while Todd Phillips’ DC Comics spin-off movie Joker (2019) will hit the small screen.The second season of the Groundhog Day-esque Russian Doll finally hits Netflix three years on from its debut.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Bomer is in early talks to join the cast of the upcoming Netflix Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, which has Bradley Cooper directing and starring as the iconic composer. If a deal closes, Bomer joins Carey Mulligan, who will play Bernstein’s wife Felicia. Pic will be produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Cooper and his Joint Effort producing partner Todd Phillips, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Fred Berner and Amy Durning.

Jessica Kiang Given the Chinese government’s frighteningly successful attempts at retroactively erasing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre from history, there is an urgent need for a soup-to-nuts retelling of that incident, solidly laying out the facts and figures, insofar as they can be known. “The Exiles,” from debut directors Violet Columbus and Ben Klein, is not that film, although some of its most powerful sequences could be repurposed in their entirety to that end.Instead, Columbus and Klein present a palimpsest of erratically overlapping perspectives.

Spider-Man: No Way Home, shared his idea for a new take on a supervillain character.“There is something interesting about, like, if there was a Joker imposter,” Dafoe told British GQ.“So it would be possible to have not duelling Jokers but someone that says to be the Joker that isn’t the Joker. And that kind of opens up the possibility of an interesting story, particularly if you had Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and then you had someone who was either imitating or riffing off what he did.”He added: “I fantasised about that. But other than that I am not talking to anybody [about it], you’re the first one.”Elsewhere in the interview, Dafoe joked about playing villains, saying: “I don’t know what that is.

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

“Joker 2” might still be happening, but Joaquin Phoenix is in the dark.

Wednesday’s tweet from the official “Cruella” account on Twitter, teasing the movie’s May release date. The new 90-second trailer has been watched by some 5 million since the drop this morning.Reactions on social media range from the excited to the perplexed, with some comparing Emma Stone’s turn as Estella de Vil, a k a “Cruella,” to “Joker,” played sorrowfully by Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for the role directed by Todd Phillips.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterDavid Fincher has criticized Todd Phillips’ Oscar-winning superhero spin-off flic Joker for its portrayal of mental illness.In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, the Mank and Fight Club filmmaker said the movie was “a betrayal of the mentally ill” and also took a wider swipe at the Hollywood studios for only green-lighting films that they think will “make them a billion dollars”.“Nobody would have thought they had a shot at a giant hit with Joker had The Dark Knight not been as massive as it was.

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Chris Hemsworth is planning to get really, really beefy!

announced last year that the actor would play the iconic wrestler in the movie said to “focus on Hogan’s rise” to fame in the 1980’s. It will be directed by Joker‘s Todd Phillips.Speaking in a new interview, Hemsworth has talked about the body transformation he’ll need to undergo to look the part.“This movie is going to be a really fun project,” he told Total Film.