Love it or hate it, Todd Phillips‘ 2019 film “Joker” still made $1.074 billion at the global box office. That means even though its sequel doesn’t hit theaters till October 2024, “Joker: Folie á Deux” is certainly one of Hollywood’s most anticipated movies. And who might blame fanboys for his or her pleasure with Lady Gaga on board as Harley Quinn and a supporting forged of Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, and Zazie Beetz? That’s not a nasty place to start out for a sequel, particularly on high of Joaquin Phoenix reprising his function as Arthur Fleck/Joker.
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Now Deadline studies that an extra actor joins the forged: Harry Lawtey, star of HBO‘s “Industry.” On the workplace drama, Lawtey plays Roger Spearing, a Welsh working-class Oxford grad who works the CPS desk at Pierpoint & Co., the show’s prestigious funding financial institution. No phrase on who Lawtey performs in “Folie á Deux,” although; maybe an Arkham Asylum inmate, as a lot of the film reportedly takes place there. Whomever he performs, Deadline’s sources declare it’s a big function.
“Joker: Folie á Deux” sees Phoenix reprise his function as Arthur Fleck, with Lady Gaga as his psychiatrist turned psychotic love curiosity, Harley Quinn. The film reportedly takes place nearly solely in Arkham Asylum, the Batman universe’s jail for the criminally insane, and may have musical components. Given the movie’s subtitle (translated from French, “a madness shared by two,”), count on Joker and Quinn’s romantic affair to take middle stage within the sequel. After all, they don’t name it “Mad Love” for nothing.
Philip directs the sequel from a script by Scott Silver, as he did with 2019’s “Joker.” The movie isn’t a part of the DCEU, so nobody has to fret about Dwayne Johnson‘s Black Adam showing up to crash Joker’s social gathering.
As for Lawtey, the second season of “Industry” simply completed airing. Catch him subsequent in Netflix‘s “The Pale Blue Eye” with Christian Bale, out this coming January. Other upcoming initiatives for Lawtey embrace ITV‘s “You & Me.”
“Joker: Folie á Deux” hits theaters on October 4, 2024. So, who will be part of Lawtey within the movie’s expanded forged? Fans will seemingly discover out extra casting information quickly.