Joker 2 Buzz Is Already Here, and It’s Good

Anyone who has watched either the archetypal or particularly the caller trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has immoderate thought it’s going to beryllium good. Director Todd Phillips and Oscar victor Joaquin Phoenix returning to this unforgettable character, with the addition of Lady Gaga, conscionable seems similar a winning combination. And though the movie won’t unfastened successful theaters until October 4, 1 idiosyncratic who has seen it confirms each that and more.

In summation to today’s merchandise of the caller trailer, the prestigious Venice Film Festival announced Joker: Folie à Deux will beryllium among the films screening astatine the festival. And, the festival’s main Alberto Barbera spoke to Deadline astir however impressed helium was with the Joker sequel.

“It’s a continuation of the communicative but the movie is wholly antithetic from the archetypal film,” Barbera said. “If you’re expecting the aforesaid successful presumption of unit oregon different things, you’ll beryllium surprised. When I saw the movie successful LA astatine the opening of February determination were 4 oregon 5 of america successful the screening room, including writer Scott Silver, and we were astonished, our mouths were unfastened astatine the extremity of the screening. It is simply a darker film.”

“A darker film” is saying thing due to the fact that that archetypal movie is pretty freaking dark. Plus, isn’t this sequel expected to beryllium a musical? Aren’t musicals usually the antithesis of dark? “It’s a dystopian musical, oregon a philharmonic of sorts,” Barbera continued. “I deliberation it’s 1 of the astir daring, brave, and originative films successful caller American cinema. And I deliberation it truly confirms Todd Phillips arsenic 1 of the astir originative directors moving astatine the moment.”

Let’s work that backmost again. “One of the astir daring, brave and originative films successful caller American cinema.” If that feline was a critic, and not promoting his ain movie festival, Warner Bros. could halt the selling present and conscionable tally with that. Of course, that won’t beryllium happening, but it surely has america adjacent much intrigued astir what’s coming this fall.

Joker: Folie à Deux opens October 4.

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