Get able to see Todd Phillips ship within the clowns in Joker: Folie à Deux—the jukebox musical! Although we’ve lengthy heard the DC Studios movie starring Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker shall be a musical, we now know a bit extra in regards to the off-kilter romantic showdown.
Variety cites insider sources as revealing Joker 2 shall be “largely a jukebox musical,” with at the least 15 covers of “very well-known” songs with room for unique music. I imply they’ve Girl Gaga so one would hope some unique music shall be within the combine. Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who received an Oscar for Finest Unique Rating for 2019’s Joker, can be aboard the sequel, and Selection’s supply notes her “haunting” musical cues could have a presence as soon as extra.
Among the many cowl songs is “That’s Leisure” from The Band Wagon, a 1953 musical starring Judy Garland (which simply so occurs to open with the lyric “A clown together with his pants falling down”). We are able to think about that the music will harken largely to outdated Broadway showtunes versus a broader playlist of traditional and trendy hits like Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. There’s positively an outdated Hollywood romance vibe to all of the imagery we’ve seen of the duo of their dreamlike mad love story.
Joker: Folie à Deux from DC Studios Elseworlds is ready for launch October 4.
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