Joker 2: Todd Phillips to return for the sequel of the Joaquin Phoenix starrer?

2019’s DC movie Joker that starred Joaquin Phoenix might have its sequel in the works. Reportedly, Todd Phillips, who co-wrote and directed Joker, will make a return as he is to write the sequel, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. Reports also say that Phillips has bagged a deal with Warner Bros to co-write the sequel of Joker.

Rumours were abuzz back in 2019 that a sequel to the Joaquin Phoenix starrer is in the works. There is yet no confirmation if Joaquin Phoenix will make a return in the second part. Phoenix played Arthur Fleck who was a party clown in the first part. He was nursing an ailing mother and when he is termed a freak by the society he decides to walk the path of crime and chaos.

In an interview with IndieWire in 2019, Phoenix had said that there were endless possibilities to a sequel of Joker, he said, “I don’t know that there is [more to do]. Me and Todd would still be shooting now if we could, right? Because it seemed endless, the possibilities of where we can go with the character.”

 

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Joker traced the origin of the Clown Prince of Crime. He is one of the most famous comic-book supervillain and the arch-nemesis of Batman.  Joker was shot with a budget of about 55 million dollars, and went on to collect 1.07 billion dollars. It was considered to be the most profitable comic-book movie ever. But, this all was not without attracting some controversy as critics claimed the movie was humanising the American real-life gun-toting mass murderers.

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