Todd Phillips shares first pic of Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie à Deux - The A.V. Club

Beginning, successful earnest, a bold caller play successful comic publication filmmaking—i.e., the 1 wherever we’re going to beryllium looking up the spelling connected “Folie à Deux” erstwhile a week until the damn happening really comes out—Todd Phillips announced contiguous that filming has officially begun connected Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to his billion-dollar, hyper-grim 2019 blockbuster Joker.

To commemorate the occasion, Phillips hopped connected Instagram contiguous to amusement disconnected a photograph of his starring man, revealing that Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck isn’t needfully looking more healthy 3 years aft the events of the archetypal movie. (Either that, oregon this is conscionable behind-the-scenes footage of Phoenix being forcibly divested of his latest I’m Still Here-style beard, truthful that filming tin commence.) Certainly, the representation suggests that 3 years of confinement haven’t been benignant to Arthur/Joker, who’s looking emaciated, with his limb covered successful sores.

Phillips’ station was, of course, met with contiguous requests from fans, inquiring astir particularly if they tin get a look astatine the caller movie’s other main character, who’s played by Lady Gaga, and who’s mostly expected to beryllium this universe’s mentation of Harley Quinn. (The film’s subtitle references the intelligence thought of a “madness shared by two,” which is simply a beauteous bully basal descriptor of the “Mad Love” betwixt the 2 characters successful astir versions of their relationship.) For now, though, nary dice: They’ll person to contented themselves with this glimpse astatine Phoenix’s Nipple O’ Misery, instead.

Joker: Folie à Deux is, obviously, inactive rather a ways disconnected from theaters: The movie is presently scheduled for an October 2024 release. There’s nary connection yet connected however the movie mightiness beryllium impacted by the caller enactment shake-ups astatine DC Studios, but fixed that the archetypal movie brought successful a monolithic $1.074 cardinal astatine the container bureau disconnected of a miniscule $70 cardinal budget, we’re beauteous definite caller workplace heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are prepared to fto Phillips and Phoenix bash beauteous overmuch thing they want.