Todd Phillips.. nah..
The ending scene? No way.
It is Joaquin Phoenix!!
At least that is what sources behind the scenes are claiming that insiders think.
After all that build up and advertising blitz of Phoenix and Lady Gaga setting to rock our Gotham City world, critics and movie goers alike had similar reactions: Shock and awe at the failure that was JOKER 2.. So many hated the entire film. Others just hated the ended..
(PS, we liked it until the final 5 minutes. All that cross universe nonsense.)
But who is to blame?
THE STAR!!
The Hollywood Reporter, their sources claim that Phoenix is being blamed as a big reason for Joker: Folie à Deux’s critical results. The publication reports, “the idea for the sequel came to Phoenix in a dream,” leading to the Academy-Award-winning actor and director Todd Phillips to pitch it to now-former-chairman of Warner Bros., Toby Emmerich. When asked who the targeted audience was for the DC sequel, “one outside source sums it up this way: “For Joaquin.””
Perhaps the real blame lays at the feet of Warner itself. Should this sequel have even been made?
No one seems to be smiling all the way to the bank in the aftermath of this comically bad disaster…