With the current shake-ups at Warner Bros. Discovery, followers have taken to the web to counsel actors to play their favourite DC Comics characters. Now it appears Willem Dafoe, greatest identified for his position for Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, has thrown his personal title in for the position of the Joker.
This isn’t the primary time followers have referred to as for Dafoe to play the Joker. Back when it was introduced that Todd Phillips can be engaged on a mature model of the character in 2019’s Joker, many followers referred to as for Dafoe to be solid earlier than Joaquin Phoenix was hooked up to the position in February 2018. When requested concerning the fan outcry on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Dafoe had this to say:
“You know, talk to Warner Bros… I floated an idea a while ago, but it didn’t quite happen, so… Listen, I didn’t really float it to them. I just mentioned it in an interview and then it kind of went out on the internet. But I thought it would be cool for me to play an imposter — like slipstreaming his thing.”
The interview being referred to is a GQ interview from 2022 the place Dafoe claimed he fantasized about starring reverse Phoenix in a sequel to Joker. However, with manufacturing of the sequel Joker: Folie à Deux now nicely underway, it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing him because the Clown Princeo of Crime anytime quickly.
What to anticipate from the Joker sequel
Joker adopted Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck as he remodeled into the Clown Prince of Crime, the sequel now seems to be set to point out Lady Gaga’s Harleen Quinzel following him into insanity.
After the primary movie ended with Arthur Fleck in Arkham State Hospital, it’s seemingly that – as in earlier iterations – Harleen Quinzel will begin out because the Joker’s psychiatrist. Plot particulars are being saved underneath wraps however the a big chunk of the sequel is anticipated to happen in Arkham.
Todd Phillips, who helmed the primary Joker film, is returning to the director’s chair for Folie à Deux, working from a script he co-wrote alongside Scott Silver. Production is anticipated to start this December for a October 2024 launch.
The solid of Folie à Deux additionally options Brendan Gleeson, Zazie Beetz, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland and Harry Lawtey.
The first Joker film is at the moment accessible on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD and digital codecs.