Lady Gaga in talks to hitch Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker 2’, a ‘musical sequel’
By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Oscar winner Lady Gaga is in early negotiations to play Harley Quinn in “Joker: Folie a Deux”, reportedly billed as a “musical” follow-up to director Todd Phillips’ 2019 blockbuster.
Last week, the filmmaker confirmed the sequel to “Joker” in an Instagram publish, which additionally revealed that Joaquin Phoenix, who performed the titular character within the Warner Bros/DC movie is anticipated to reprise his function.
Sources advised The Hollywood Reporter, the sequel can also be a musical.
Details on Gaga’s character are being saved beneath wraps, however Joker is understood for his on-off abusive relationship with Harley Quinn, his psychiatrist on the Arkham Asylum who falls in love with him and turns into his partner-in-crime.
Past Warner Bros’ initiatives have seen Margot Robbie and Kaley Cuoco star as Harley Quinn.
When the director teased the script of “Joker: Folie a Deux”, written by him and Scott Silver, hypothesis began doing the rounds that Harley Quinn could be part of the follow-up.
‘Folie a Deux’, refers to a shared delusional dysfunction, and Joker’s solely actual companion — aside from Batman, anyway — has been Quinn, a personality first created for “Batman: The Animated Series” within the early Nineteen Nineties.
It can also be unclear whether or not Gaga would additionally contribute any music to the undertaking.
The pop star labored with Phillips, who served as a producer on her 2018 movie “A Star Is Born”, which earned Gaga an Oscar nomination for greatest actress and a win for authentic music.
Phoenix, who gained the most effective actor Oscar for his efficiency as Arthur Fleck aka Joker, is anticipated to return however his deal has but to be closed.
Phillips’ “Joker” is a ‘character examine’ of Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable loner whose well being begins to say no after Gotham slashes funding for social providers, forcing him to desert his remedy periods, and making his drugs inaccessible and switch into The Joker.
The movie additionally gained a greatest authentic rating Oscar for Hildur Guonadottir.
