Todd Phillips Discloses If Joker 2 Should Be Called a Musical By The first movie showed us the twisted origin story of the villain. takes place two years later where Arthur Fleck finds new love with . Despite the trailers’ musical hints and the leads’ music backgrounds, questions if his sequel is a musical.
Joker 2’s trailers have sing “For Once in My Life” and “What the World Needs Now.” After , it’s expected that the singer will lay down tracks of her own. With all of these musical teases in Folie à Deux, does that mean the Joker sequel is a musical? Todd Phillips struggled to give an answer to : “Most of the music in the movie is really just dialogue,” said Phillips.
“It’s just Arthur not having the words to say what he wants to say, so he sings them instead.” It looks like Joker 2 could fall into fully-sung musical movies like , , and Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The previous film’s music moments, like Arthur Fleck’s bathroom and subway stairs dances, symbolized his descent into madness.
It ought to be puzzling if these dreamy song-and-dance sequences are While Joker 2 promises us a lot of music, Todd Phillips doesn’t want fans to get the wrong idea about the movie’s tone: “I just don’t want people to think that it’s like In the Heights, where the lady in the bodega starts to sing and they take it out onto the street, and the police are dancing. No disrespect, because I loved In the Heights.” What else is there to know about Joker 2�.