Comics
‘Joker’ is Getting a Sequel with More Origin Stories in the Works
As we told you several times over the past month, there is no world in which Warner Bros. doesn’t make a sequel to Joker and expand on their DC Origins universe.
Now, THR is making it more “official” as they write that Joker director Todd Phillips is “likely” to reteam with star Joaquin Phoenix on a follow-up to the $1 billion-grossing R-rated hit.
In addition, they share an anecdote in which Phillips headed into Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich’s office, buoyed by the film’s $96.2 million opening-weekend haul – where he proposed an outsized idea — the rights to develop a portfolio of DC characters’ origin stories.
While he was allegedly balked at, the site reports, “Phillips did emerge from the meeting with the rights to at least one other DC story.”
As for the Joker sequel, the site says Phillips is in talks to reprise his role as director, and will co-pen the film with Scott Silver.
Warners has sequel options in place for Joker star Joaquin Phoenix, which means he doesn’t have a choice in the matter. He’ll be back if they move forward.
Update: Interestingly, Deadline throws major shade at THR and disputes the entirety of this morning’s story claiming there are no plans for a sequel (yet) and that there haven’t been any negotiations between Warner and Phillips. They also state the story in which Phillips left a meeting with a single property to adapt is also bunk.
Frankly, there’s no planet in which a Joker sequel isn’t made. We’ll just have to sit back and wait for an official announcement.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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