Joaquin Phoenix in the title role of the movie “Joker” – Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. TM & © DC Comics / Niko Tavernise
If Joker is one of the few superhero, well, villainous, movies not to be called away, its box office success has bound to give Hollywood executives some ideas. The headliner Joaquin Phoenix is also rather ready, as he confided in 2019: “We talked a lot with Todd Phillips, the director, about what we could do together, in general, but also more specifically with the Joker. Now, Todd Phillips has just signed to co-write Joker 2.
The information is not yet 100% official, and could even have gone unnoticed, because it appears in an article in the Hollywood Reporter on the industry’s most powerful lawyers: “Todd Phillips has struck a deal to co-write the next Joker “. That’s it, but it’s a pretty good sign. Even if it will surely take a few more years, the director having committed to a biopic of wrestler Hulk Hogan with Chris Hemsworth.