Joker: Joaquin Phoenix Opens Up About The Sequel Possibility

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In 2019, Joaquin Phoenix’s movie The Joker was one of the biggest successes of modern Hollywood. Grossed over a billion dollars worldwide against a relatively small budget of $70 million, it was the first R-rated film in history that reached a billion-dollar milestone. 11 Academy Award Nominations, winning Best Actor for Phoenix and Best Original Score.

With all that, and all the critical acclaim it received, the one would think the sequel would come at light’s speed, but two years since the movie’s release, there’s still nothing official, although there was a couple of rumors that sequel is in active development, but nothing legit.

Now, Joaquin Phoenix opened up about the possibility of the sequel. Is it in development? Or will it happen at all? In an interview with The Playlist, Phoenix said:

“I mean, I dunno. From when we were shooting, we started to —you know, uhh, this is an interesting guy. There are some things we could do with this guy and could [explore] further. But as to whether we actually will? I don’t know.”

In other words, Phoenix doesn’t know anything (or he’s just acting like it) about the sequel, but it seems that doors on the sequel aren’t completely closed yet. Phoenix received all the possible praise for his acting in the first movie and it’s quite certain he would be willing to return to the role, but who knows what bosses from Warner Bros. and DC are thinking about the idea of the sequel, especially considering that Joker wasn’t a typical comic book movie and that, in some fans’ opinions, it just works perfect on its own.

Source: The Direct

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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.