'Joker: Folie à Deux' Director Todd Phillips Released New Photos For The Holidays
DC's only theatrical release of 2024 laughs its way out in October
2024 is the true transitional year for DC Studios as it heads toward its new main DC Universe, and it’s not all that evenly distributed either. Not only is the new universe’s first TV series, the animated Creature Commandos, not going to be released until the later part of the year, but neither is the The Batman spin-off series The Penguin, both for Max. The one theatrical film they have is the Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, and it’s not opening until October. However, in commemoration of the holiday season, director Todd Phillips released two new images for even more peeks at the film.
The photos of course feature the film’s stars, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as Arthur Fleck and Harley Quinn. The first has Fleck behind what is believed to be a prison cell window with its number “E258” painted above it. The second has Harley in plain clothes, looking at a fully made-up Fleck. Phillips’s full message reads “Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a beautiful new year. Oct 2024 #Joker2”.
While the film also seems to boast the return of Zazie Beetz’s Sophie Dumond, the roles for Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland and Harry Lawtey continue to be unrevealed and none of the five have been featured in Phillips’s photo drips, which began last Valentine’s Day (that in particular is used in this article as head image), with subsequent image releases occurring to mark the wrapping of filming in April, avoiding both strikes, and another for the one year until release in October. Other set photos were also released in March.
Joker: Folie à Deux is set for release in theaters on October 4, 2024, from Warner Bros. Pictures. If Wonka and Mean Girls are any indication, out-of-theater marketing will gleefully obscure the fact that the film is a musical. It is the sequel to 2019’s billion-grossing Joker, where Phoenix’s performance as Fleck won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter