The First Joker 2 Details Sound Completely Nuts
I was one of the few who did not rush out to see Joker when it opened, because based on what I’d learned about the plot, it did not sound like a “me” kind of film. It sounded monumentally depressing, and I don’t do depressing. Or at the least, I don’t deliberately go out and pay someone money to make me depressed for an entire afternoon or evening.
It is my understanding Joker is basically “How tragic would it be if there was a Joker in real life?” That’s the kind of question you can answer in one movie and be done with it. But it made a billion bucks so here they are, trying to extend it any way they can. And the method of extension they’re using sounds….weird.
Lead actor Joaquin Phoenix is returning and so is director Todd Phillips. But get this…instead of a dark drama, Joker 2 is going to be a musical. At least, that’s what THR reports…and it gets wilder than that. Harley Quinn is going to be in the movie, but since this is a different, more grounded reality than the one WB has mainly been using, Margot Robbie isn’t getting an invitation. Instead they’re tapping…Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga is, unarguably, a national treasure and one of the few music stars to live up to her own hype. But even if dressing from head to toe in meat in the late 2000s is totally Harley behavior, I can’t really see it. But I have to assume at this point, they’re planning a Gremlins 2 style meta-sequel where the goal is to make fun of the original. Now if it IS THAT…I would definitely buy a ticket! And Gaga would be great in it.
Joker 2 has no release date (and currently it’s not a done deal, so we can’t promise it will even get made).
Knegative
June 14, 2022 @ 5:34 am
I am so used of Margot Robbie as Harley but if this is Musical, they needed someone who can sing.
Magnum
June 14, 2022 @ 5:56 am
Gaga was incredible in A Star Is Born, and she had so many interesting clothes and concepts in her earlier music videos / awards shows runways that she’d even perform in them. I can’t wait for her to come on board as Harley.Don’t underestimate Joaquin’s singing abilities… his performance in Walk the Line was fantastic!
Melancholy Hill
June 14, 2022 @ 5:59 am
I’m really looking forward to that. The first Joker was incredible, and if a sequel was developed in the same vein, it would be compared to it and would have a difficult time living up to it. Making it so dissimilar allows it to stand on its own and, if good, realistically achieve the same heights as the original.
Berlin
June 14, 2022 @ 6:06 am
Because everything happens in Arthur’s imagination, I wouldn’t mind a musical. We’d get some more dance memes to display alongside Divorced Ken. A musical adaptation of The Joker is something I can see happening. It might work only because it’s so bizarre.
frankadam
June 17, 2022 @ 12:45 pm
Gaga can pull off the Brooklyn accent because she is New Yorker but can she pull off a whimsical child like character like Harley?
Ethan Kirchner
June 17, 2022 @ 1:01 pm
I don’t see Gaga as Harley. Weird Casting. They could have cast someone like Alexa Bliss or Samara Weaving