Phoenix. Gaga. And a new poster for 'Joker: Folie à Deux'

These have been the weeks of Joker: Madness for Two. It recently celebrated its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and Warner Bros. has been pampering audiences with plenty of promotional material.

The latest is a new official poster focusing on the faces of Joaquin Phoenix y Lady Gagain full characterization. He returning as Arthur Fleck/Joker, and she debuting as Harley Quinn, who in this Joker-verse of Todd Phillipsto his incarnation of the popular character is known as Lee.

The poster is available at the end of this note.

Todd Phillips returns as director and co-writer with Scott Silver.

Previously, Phillips said that Joker: Madness for Two It's not a traditional sequel:

“I don't consider it a sequel. Very often a sequel is more of the same, just bigger. Of course, [Folie À Deux] It's a sequel, but it felt like we were doing something completely different. It's tonally and inherently something much more different.”

The sequel It will have musical elements and is set in Arkham Asylumwhich is where the first film ends after Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) was sent there. The acclaimed JOKER (2019) by Phillips, follows Arthur Fleck and his journey to become the clown of crime, serving as the origin story of the iconic villain, developing its plot in Gotham City in the 80s.

In addition to Phoenix and Gaga, the main cast includes Zazie Beetz reprising her role as Sophie Dumond, with the new additions of Catherine Keener (Get Out, The 40 Year Old Virgin), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges, Harry Potter), Jacob Lofland (Mud), y Harry Lawtey (Industry).

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) awarded Joker 2 the R rating by:

“Some strong violence, constant language, some sexuality and brief total nudity.”

This is the same rating as the original film, Joker (2019), although for different reasons: “strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, brief sexual language and images.”

SOME DATA:

• The literal translation of Folie à Deux is in English Madness for Two, and in Spanish Madness for twoBut it's also a term for “shared psychosis” or “shared delusional disorder,” which fits like a glove in direct reference to Joker and Quinn.
• Joker is known for his on-and-off abusive relationship with Harley Quinn, his psychiatrist at the Arkham Asylum mental institution, who falls in love with him and becomes his partner in crime.
• This is one of the few projects that did not suffer changes or cancellations after the merger of Warner Bros. Discovery (details here).
• Crazy for Two exists outside the DCU which is being worked on by James Gunn and Peter Safran, the co-presidents of DC Studios.

Joker: Madness for Two will be released in theaters on October 4, 2024.

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