Nå har Joker vært på kino i en stund, og ikke bare har den klart seg ganske bra blant anmeldere, den har også klart å bli den mest innbringende filmen med en R-Rating noensinne, etter å ha slått Deadpool. Nettopp derfor er det kun naturlig å utvikle en oppfølger, men regissør Todd Phillips har tidligere uttrykt skepsis rundt en sånn idé.
Nå virker det dog som at Phillips og Skuespiller Joaquin Phoenix i det minste snakker om hvordan de ville kunne gjøre det. I et intervju med The Envelope snakker de to om deres prosess, og jer sier de at de ikke lengre utelukker det.
"Long before the release or before we had any idea if it would be successful, we talked about sequels. In the second or third week of shooting, I was like, 'Todd, can you start working on a sequel? There's way too much to explore.' It was kind of in jest — but not really," sier Phoenix.
Han slår dog også fast at han ikke krev under på kontrakten for å kunne lage flere filmer.
"I guess the fear was that you'd get locked into doing something repeatedly that you don't really care about, that doesn't motivate you or excite you. Part of the whole attraction to me [of Joker] was there was no expectation. I didn't sign a deal to do [more movies]. It was a one-off."
Dog sier Phillips at de har snakket om å lage en oppfølger. Men om dette blir til noe vites ikke.
"We've only talked about the fact that if we ever did one -- and I'm not saying we are because right now we're not -- it couldn't just be this wild and crazy movie about the 'Clown Prince of Crime.' That just doesn't interest us. It would have to have some thematic resonance in a similar way that this does."