Shooting “Joker 2: Folie a Deux” have been completed. Director Todd Phillips made the announcement on Instagram, where the director and screenwriter also shared two new photos of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, who will respectively star as Arthur Fleck/Joker and Harleen Frances Quinzel/Harley Quinn in the DC sequel:
“The film is in the can,” Phillips wrote on Instagram. “Thanks to these two [also Lady Gaga und Joaquin Phoenix] and the entire cast and the BEST crew in the motion picture industry. From the very top to the very bottom. I’m going to crawl into a cave (cutting room) now and put it all together.”
As Phillips writes, the last take has fallen, but of course “Joker 2” is far from finished. The nearly four-month shoot is now followed by the complex post-production involving editing, music and sound, computer effects and much more – and the cast and crew may even have to get back in front of the camera for so-called reshoots in order to make up for missing scenes or extras. to film fragments afterwards.
After all, it will be a long time before the theatrical release of “Joker 2: Folie À Deux” – the long-awaited sequel will only be released in German cinemas in just under a year and a half, on October 3, 2024.
This is Joker 2: Folie à Deux
Incidentally, the title refers to a special form of mental illness in which two people can develop a common delusional disorder. And who could be truer than the Joker and Harley Quinn? In the DC comics, psychiatrist Harleen Quinzel once succumbed to the Joker – and insanity – while treating him as a patient at Arkham Asylum. And it will be clearly similar in “Joker 2”.
Snapshots from the recording show on the one hand that Lady Gaga in “Joker 2” is apparently not in the above Harley Quinn look all the time, but only gradually grows into this role. And on the other hand, newspaper front page photos that circulate from the set, thematizing the romance between the two characters.
Nevertheless, Todd Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix, and Lady Gaga will likely draw different facets from Harley and Joker’s relationship than they usually do in the comics. The fact that “Joker 2” is going to be a musical means that…