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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’: Todd Phillips Teases ‘Joker’ Sequel Progress
Director Todd Phillips has taken to Instagram tonight to update on the progress of his sequel to the 2019 hit Joker, revealing that Joker: Folie à Deux is the current title of the script.
Phillips has shared the cover page for the sequel’s script, which he wrote alongside Scott Silver. A second image shows returning star Joaquin Phoenix reading the script.
Joker was also written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, and of course starred Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, the man who ends up becoming DC’s iconic villain.
In Joker, which won two Academy Awards in 2020, “A mentally troubled stand-up comedian embarks on a downward spiral that leads to the creation of an iconic villain.”
The bold new take on the classic villain laughed its way to over $1 billion at the worldwide box office, all but ensuring that we hadn’t seen the last of Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck.
“Folie à Deux,” for what it’s worth, is the term meaning “shared psychosis” or “shared delusional disorder,” which could suggest something about the storyline at play here.
Will Joker be joined this time by Harley Quinn, perhaps…?
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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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