Anybody who has watched both the primary or especially the new trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has some concept it’s going to be good. Director Todd Phillips and Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix returning to this unforgettable character, with the addition of Lady Gaga, simply looks as if a successful mixture. And although the movie gained’t open in theaters till October 4, one one that has seen it confirms all that and extra.
Along with immediately’s launch of the brand new trailer, the celebrated Venice Movie Pageant introduced Joker: Folie à Deux might be among the many movies screening on the pageant. And, the pageant’s chief Alberto Barbera spoke to Deadline about how impressed he was with the Joker sequel.
“It’s a continuation of the story however the movie is totally totally different from the primary movie,” Barbera mentioned. “If you happen to’re anticipating the identical when it comes to violence or different issues, you’ll be shocked. After I noticed the movie in LA at the start of February there have been 4 or 5 of us within the screening room, together with author Scott Silver, and we had been astonished, our mouths had been open on the finish of the screening. It’s a darker movie.”
“A darker movie” is saying one thing as a result of that first film is pretty freaking dark. Plus, isn’t this sequel speculated to be a musical? Aren’t musicals often the antithesis of darkish? “It’s a dystopian musical, or a musical of types,” Barbera continued. “I feel it’s probably the most daring, courageous, and inventive movies in current American cinema. And I feel it actually confirms Todd Phillips as probably the most inventive administrators working in the intervening time.”
Let’s learn that again once more. “One of the daring, courageous and inventive movies in current American cinema.” If that man was a critic, and never selling his personal movie pageant, Warner Bros. might cease the advertising and marketing now and simply run with that. In fact, that gained’t be taking place, but it surely actually has us much more intrigued about what’s coming this fall.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens October 4.
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