Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie Deux will not open with a big dramatic sequence like the first movie, or even a song and dance number like the trailers have suggested. Instead, the sequel opens with an animated Joker cartoon, setting the tone for the wild ride ahead. Following the massive box office success of 2019’s Joker, which earned 11 Academy Award nominations, including a Best Actor win for Joaquin Phoenix, expectations are high for the sequel. Joker was praised for being different from other comic book adaptations, and it looks like Joker: Folie Deux wants to shock audiences again with an opening sequence they likely aren’t expecting.
The Joker sequel features an opening sequence animated by Sylvain Chomet, director of the Oscar-nominated animated film The Triplets of Belleville. Read More