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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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Before the Abbott family storyline continues in a third installment of the franchise, spinoff prequel A Quiet Place: Day One will be making its way into theaters on June 28, 2024.
We’ll discover why our world went quiet in A Quiet Place: Day One, which will expand the universe of John Krasinski’s hit horror franchise. Watch the brand new trailer below.
Horror franchises spicing up their formula with trips to New York City is of course nothing new, with Day One following in the wake of films like Jason Takes Manhattan, Scream VI and Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Bringing these particular monsters into one of the loudest places in the world should make for some thrilling set pieces, several of which are previewed here.
Lupita Nyong’o (Us), Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”) and Alex Wolff (Hereditary) star. Michael Sarnoski (Pig) is headed to A Quiet Place to direct the brand new movie.
Djimon Hounsou, who appeared in A Quiet Place Part II, will reprise his role in Day One.
Entertainment Weekly detailed the upcoming movie’s prequel storyline, “Lupita Nyong’o stars as Sam, a woman who’s on a day trip to New York City when the monsters arrive.
“As everything quickly goes to hell, she’s thrown together with a man named Eric (Joseph Quinn). With some reluctance, the pair agree to navigate and survive the city together.”
The spinoff is based on an original idea by John Krasinski and Michael Sarnoski, and it was written by Sarnoski. Meanwhile, it’s expected that the Abbott family storyline will become a trilogy with Krasinski recently teasing that he has ideas for the third film in the main series.
John Krasinski will produce alongside Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller via Platinum Dunes. A Quiet Place Part II opened to $57 million at the domestic box office in May 2021 and has earned $297 million worldwide, making it easy to see why this franchise is expanding.
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