Even with the present brand-wide reset that DC’s movie studio is present process, there’s been little or no indication that Todd Phillps’ sequel to Joker was ever thought of for the chopping block. After grossing a billion {dollars} on a funds of $70 million, Warner Brothers was discussing a sequel to Joker earlier than the movie wrapped its opening weekend. It isn’t solely good enterprise to make a sequel; it is a secure guess. 

Nonetheless, though Joker 2 is doubtlessly one of many most secure bets in all of Hollywood proper now, Todd Phillips determined to stay dangerously by developing the movie as a musical. One of many central parts that made the unique an enormous success was the gloomy tone that permeated the film. By selecting to make the flick a musical, Phillips is taking a substantial danger by presumably alienating the franchises’ put in fan base. 

In an try and quell fan apprehension whereas concurrently stoking the embers of their pleasure, Phillips simply launched a photograph of Girl Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix as Harley Quinn and the Joker, respectively.