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“Joker: Folie à Deux” will be released on October 4, 2024 in cinemas.
MOVIE THEATER – Joker: Madness for twothe sequel to the film on Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker just started filming. The director, Todd Phillips, unveiled this Sunday, December 11 on Instagram a first shot of the main actor in the skin of Arthur Fleck.
This first shot says little about the story since it only shows the main character shirtless, being shaved at the barber. ” Day 1. Our boy “, is it simply written in the caption.
In this new opus, whose release is scheduled for cinema in France on October 4, 2024, we will meet a new Harley Quinn, played by Lady Gaga. Zazie Beetz, Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson and Jacob Lofland also round out the cast.
A madness for twoin musical
It will therefore be necessary to be patient before reviewing Joaquin Phoenix on the screen in this film which will take the form of a… musical comedy. The news revealed by the American press last June surprised everyone. This genre is rarely (if ever) associated with superhero films, and marks a bold bet launched by Todd Phillips.
The film should explore the relationship between Arthur Fleck – the Joker’s civil name – and Harley Quinn. In the comics, the one who is initially a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum ends up falling in love with him and becomes his accomplice. This is timely from a screenwriting point of view since Arthur Fleck is precisely locked up in Arkham at the end of the first film released in 2019.
The title chosen by the director also confirms this probable orientation in the story. Revealed on his Instagram account on June 8, “ Madness for two » refers to a medical term used to refer to a similar psychiatric disorder in two different people, often from the same family.
Also called “ induced delusional disorder » or “shared psychotic disorder”this rare phenomenon would be induced by the contact of a delirious subject with a second subject, who “then adopt this same ideational content”, as summarized by the National Library of Medicine.
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