For the sequel, Phillips will likely be returning to the director’s chair and has co-written the script with Scott Silver, with whom he collaborated on Joker. The Hollywood Reporter’s sources added that it is going to be a musical and that Gaga will play Harley Quinn, Joker’s baseball bat-wielding associate in crime, embodied by Margot Robbie in Suicide Squad reverse Jared Leto’s menacing clown. Becoming a member of her will likely be Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond, our titular anti-hero’s former neighbor from the primary movie, in addition to Catherine Keener and Brendan Gleeson in undisclosed roles, with among the new launch going down in and round Arkham Asylum, the place the story left off. A launch date was introduced, too: October 4, 2024. On February 14, 2023, a primary nonetheless adopted, exhibiting Gaga and Phoenix staring into one another’s eyes.

Is that blood on their faces or paint? Is the title Joker: Folie à Deux a nod to a situation our lead shares with Harley Quinn, or one he shared along with his troubled mom Penny, as performed by Frances Conroy in Joker? Will different DC superheroes seem within the new movie, or will the story be grounded in actuality as its predecessor was? We don’t but know—although some extra particulars have emerged since. On March 22, 2024, sources advised Selection that “the film leans closely in the direction of being largely a jukebox musical, because it integrates a minimum of 15 reinterpretations of very well-known songs.” One among them is believed to be “That’s Leisure” from the 1953 musical The Band Wagon. Per the publication, there may be, nevertheless additionally “a door open for an authentic music (or two) to be added to the ultimate model. Particulars concerning who would pen the tracks, or sing the numbers are unknown. We do know, in accordance with sources, [that] Hildur Guðnadóttir, the Oscar-winning composer of the primary Joker movie, is claimed to infuse her distinctive, haunting [music] cues into every quantity.” Right here’s hoping Gaga will write and carry out the brand new tracks herself—and that extra Oscars are on the playing cards for each her and Guðnadóttir come 2025.