Clown: Pas de deux, The Clown Prince of Crime and Harley Quinn, starring Jayaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, will be released in theaters soon. While the stars are still considering whether their musical sequel will actually be a musical, Phoenix is on the fence about whether he and director Todd Phillips will make it a trilogy.
In a recent interview with IGN, Phillips and screenwriter Scott Silver reflected on how Joker 2 came together. Phillips recalled that he and Phoenix fell in love with the work they were creating with Arthur Fleck, and soon began joking that the character’s misadventures might play out during the first film’s 55-day shoot. Continue for about 30 days. As IGN points out, Phoenix was generally opposed to making sequels, so the Joker 2 With that comes quite a few caveats.
“Joaquín couldn’t have done anything with the second ball behind, even if you say ‘à Deux’, unless it was a completely different, risky one. [thing] Kind of like swinging on a fence. So this is dominance. “I mean, we’re not just going to write an anticipated sequel. Oh, that guy in the police car is now running a crime syndicate in Gotham. Not only am I not necessarily interested in that, there’s no way Joaquin would be able to do it. That movie, because he knew that wasn’t the real Arthur Fleck, the Arthur Fleck that we all created.
“He literally said to me, ‘I’m not going to do this unless I’m as scared as I was the first time.’ He was as shocked by the first movie as an actor could hope to be,” Phillips continued. “We wrote a script that would give him that feeling.”
somewhere on their way back and forth Joker 2Phillips recalled, Phoenix suggested they “do it on Broadway or somewhere.”
“He had this vision, but again, 50 to 80 percent of it was a joke on our part. That was the creative process. Then I would call Scott and say, ‘What do you think about this?’ “We just bounce ideas around. That’s how everyone works,” Phillips said.
Critics have mixed feelings about whether Phillip’s sophomore effort with Clowney in Phoenix was worth it. One review even said that the film committed the sin of wasting Lady Gaga’s talent. when asked Joker 2Is it possible that the official press conference in Venice will be held for a third time? clown In the movie, Phillips leaves things unresolved.
“I don’t want to speak for Joaquin, but to me the Arthur/Joker story has been told,” Phillips said, according to Vulture. “I can’t say yes or no, but staying in this field doesn’t necessarily mean that my goal.”
What if the fear of disappointing critics and audiences wasn’t enough to push Phoenix’s love for Arthur to venture into a third installment? clown In movies, Phillips can always go the hardcore route and keep a gay romance storyline hanging over his head. If you know, you know.
Clown: Pas de deux Opens in theaters on October 4.
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