Joaquin Phoenix had the idea for Joker 2 in a dream

Is Joker: Folie à deux definitely the actor's ultimate vanity project?

We're not done with it Joker: Folie à deux. Not yet. A long article from The Hollywood Reporter, entitled “Why no one will be fired for producing Joker 2”, goes behind the scenes of the making of the film – which got off to a disastrous start in the USA but exceeded 600,000 admissions in France. In this article, we learn a lot of things, including that the film did not pass the test screenings (crazy for any studio film) and that the idea for the film came to its star Joaquin Phoenix in a dream. After toying with the idea of ​​making it a musical on Broadway…

“Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix weren't sure about making a sequel (to Joker), and at one point considered making it a Broadway show, before signing on for the film and bringing in Lady Gaga in a role inspired by the comic book character Harley Quinn”explains the article. “The pitch for the sequel came to Phoenix in a dream, and he and Phillis explained the idea to Emmerich (former Warner film boss Toby Emmerich), according to multiple sources.”

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The first Jokerreleased in 2019, won the Golden Lion in Venice, grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide, and brought home the Oscar for Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. Making a sequel was obligatory. Was the public failure of it also obligatory? Folie à deux was he actually Madness of onenamely that (artistic) of its actor/producer/chief dreamer, Joaquin Phoenix? In any case, the latter recently left on the eve of filming Todd Haynes' new film, a gay romance for which he had the idea himself…

Anyway, it's almost over: there will be no Joker 3. And The Hollywood Reporter article concludes with a revealing anecdote: an anonymous source states that the target audience of Joker 2 was simply Joaquin. All alone, and no one else.