Brendan Gleeson Joins Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in ‘Joker 2’

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The original Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix was released in 2019 and it received widespread acclaim. The movie grossed more than a billion dollars, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time and it was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning two of them, for Best Actor and Best Original Score.

Earlier this year, writer and director Todd Phillips announced that he finished the script for the sequel with Phoenix set to return in the titular role. Shortly after the official announcement, Lady Gaga joined the cast as Harley Quinn, and Zazie Beetz is also set to reprise her role from the first movie.

Now, according to Deadline, Brendan Gleeson joined the cast of Joker 2, officially titled Joker: Folie à Deux (Joker: Madness for Two). Gleeson is a veteran Irish actor known for playing Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter movie series, and he also starred in known movies such as Mel Gibson’s Braveheart and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.

Joker: Folie à Deux is set to be released on October 4, 2022.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.