Anybody who has watched both the primary or especially the new trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux has some thought 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 received’t open in theaters till October 4, one one that has seen it confirms all that and extra.
Along with at the moment’s launch of the brand new trailer, the celebrated Venice Movie Pageant introduced Joker: Folie à Deux will probably be among the many movies screening on the competition. And, the competition’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 stated. “If you happen to’re anticipating the identical when it comes to violence or different issues, you’ll be shocked. Once I noticed the movie in LA firstly 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 alleged to be a musical? Aren’t musicals normally 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 mean 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 competition, Warner Bros. might cease the advertising now and simply run with that. After all, that received’t be occurring, nevertheless it actually has us much more intrigued about what’s coming this fall.
Joker: Folie à Deux opens October 4.
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