Todd Phillips is giving DC fans a Christmas present, dropping brand new photos of Joker: Folie à Deux featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
“Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a beautiful new year,” Phillips shared on Instagram alongside the two pictures.
Phoenix is reprising his role of the Joker that he gave life to in the 2018 film. Lady Gaga is joining the sequel as Harley Quinn. In the first photo, Phoenix’s Joker is jailed, while the second photo sees Gaga’s Harley Quinn gazing at the Joker, who has his characteristic makeup on.
Joker: Folie à Deux is slated to premiere on October 4, 2024.
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’
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The cast of the sequel also includes Catherine Keener, Brendan Gleeson and Zazie Beetz.
Joker: Folie à Deux is part of DC Elseworlds and is not part of the universe that Peter Safran and James Gunn are building since taking the helm of DC Studios.
Lady Gaga is taking on the role of Harley Quinn, which had been portrayed by Margot Robbie in films like Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021). Robbie expressed her happiness that the Harley Quinn character will continue to live on.
“It makes me so happy because I said from the very beginning, all I want is for Harley Quinn to be one of those characters, the way like Macbeth or Batman always gets passed from great actor to great actor,” Robbie told MTV News in 2022.
She continued, “It’s such an honor to have built a foundation strong enough that Harley can now be one of those characters that other actors get to have a go at playing. I think she’ll do something incredible with it.”