Lady Gaga In Talks To Join Todd Phillips' Joker 2, A Musical Sequel
Oscar winner Lady Gaga is in early negotiations to play Harley Quinn in "Joker: Folie a Deux", reportedly billed as a "musical" follow-up to director Todd Phillips' 2019 blockbuster.
Oscar
winner
Lady
Gaga
is
in
early
negotiations
to
play
Harley
Quinn
in
"Joker:
Folie
a
Deux",
reportedly
billed
as
a
"musical" follow-up
to
director
Todd
Phillips'
2019
blockbuster.
Last
week,
the
filmmaker
confirmed
the
sequel
to
"Joker" in
an
Instagram
post,
which
also
revealed
that
Joaquin
Phoenix,
who
played
the
titular
character
in
the
Warner
Bros/DC
film
is
expected
to
reprise
his
role.
Sources
told
The
Hollywood
Reporter,
the
sequel
is
also
a
musical.
Details
on
Gaga's
character
are
being
kept
under
wraps,
but
Joker
is
known
for
his
on-off
abusive
relationship
with
Harley
Quinn,
his
psychiatrist
at
the
Arkham
Asylum
who
falls
in
love
with
him
and
becomes
his
partner-in-crime.
Past
Warner
Bros'
projects
have
seen
Margot
Robbie
and
Kaley
Cuoco
star
as
Harley
Quinn.
When
the
director
teased
the
script
of
"Joker:
Folie
a
Deux",
written
by
him
and
Scott
Silver,
speculation
started
doing
the
rounds
that
Harley
Quinn
would
be
a
part
of
the
follow-up.
'Folie
a
Deux',
refers
to
a
shared
delusional
disorder,
and
Joker's
only
real
companion
--
other
than
Batman,
anyway
--
has
been
Quinn,
a
character
first
created
for
"Batman:
The
Animated
Series" in
the
early
1990s.
It
is
also
unclear
whether
Gaga
would
also
contribute
any
music
to
the
project.
The
pop
star
worked
with
Phillips,
who
served
as
a
producer
on
her
2018
film
"A
Star
Is
Born",
which
earned
Gaga
an
Oscar
nomination
for
best
actress
and
a
win
for
original
song.
Phoenix,
who
won
best
actor
Oscar
for
his
performance
as
Arthur
Fleck
aka
Joker,
is
expected
to
return
but
his
deal
has
yet
to
be
closed.
Phillips'
"Joker" is
a
'character
study'
of
Arthur
Fleck,
a
mentally
unstable
loner
whose
health
begins
to
decline
after
Gotham
slashes
funding
for
social
services,
forcing
him
to
abandon
his
therapy
sessions,
making
his
medications
inaccessible
and
turn
into
The
Joker.
The
film
also
won
a
best
original
score
Oscar
for
Hildur
Guonadottir.