Welcome back everyone it's Charlie this will be my Joker 2 first look video Todd Phillips just
started filming the movie he dropped the first scene so we'll break it all down also explain
how this fits into James Gunn's plan for the next 10 year of DC movies because there's so much chaos
happening with all the movies the recasting the soft rebooting of the entire DC EU because it's a
developing situation I will be doing videos for all this stuff so be sure to subscribe to get
everything the big thing you may have seen people posting about recently all over your feeds is that
Todd Phillips just started filming Joker two this is the first scene with Joaquin Phoenix's Joker
character getting a shave notice his trademark emaciated look like he gained a lot of weight
after they filmed the first movie because he lost so much weight like a crazy amount of weight it
was meant to play into the sort of unhealthy Vibe of the character like he was just living a very
unhealthy lifestyle because of everything that had been happening to him and everything he'd
been going through clearly things have not gotten better with him being inside Arkham Asylum he
looks nonetheless for where he's still inside Arkham Asylum if you couldn't tell while he's
being shaved here this is a prison guard doing the actual shaving holding his head down just in
case he tries to escape while they're actually holding a sharp razor to his neck the way that
James Gunn and the other Warner Brothers people talked about the movie they aren't planning on
touching what Todd Phillips is doing with the Joker movie at all it's still going to
be in its own alternate universe I think that's just because the first movie did so well had it
not been so successful they probably would have soft rebooted that too they're getting the same
treatment that Matt Reeves is getting with his Batman franchise Robert Pattinson's Batman all
those spin-offs those are also being currently treated like it's his own alternate continuity
like these two different franchises are happening on Alternate universes from the main Justice
League Earth that will be the one that they soft reboot Todd Phillips also recently dropped a
teaser trailer for Joker too so they're actually going full steam ahead with the production there
was a title reveal and the full script like it's basically good to go because they're getting ready
to film it the title is pronounced Joker Folie Au Duex its French for Joker shared Madness as
in Joker shared psychotic episode it's determined psychology used to describe when multiple people
share the same delusion the same psychotic episode this also confirms now that the title
shared delusions so to speak refers to the shared delusion that joker will share with Doctor harleen
quinzel during his stay at Arkham Asylum that a lot of reports that say that most of the movie
will take place in and around Arkham Asylum so it'll deal with the development of their
relationship like how he meets her for the first time how she eventually falls in love with him and
eventually he winds up twisting her to the dark side so to speak they've kind of addressed that
in previous Batman projects like they did a little bit during the previous Suicide Squad movies with
the Margot Robbie version of Harley Quinn we saw a little bit of her origin story as Harley Quinn
it sounds like a lot of this movie is just going to be a much bigger version of that also because
it's still going to be relatively low budget it makes sense that they would keep a lot of
it in and around Arkham Asylum it'll be really interesting to see what she looks like compared
to the Margot Robbie version of Harley Quinn I had to cut out a little bit of the music from
the teaser trailer just for copyright reasons but this is what the actual audio sounds like on it
it's playing that classic song cheek to cheek which is just meant to reference the context
of their relationship like this is happening in Arkham Asylum like it's a reference to the
fantasy that is taking place in his head you're never quite sure if what's happening is really
happening or if it's just happening inside his head and now obviously because it's a shared
delusion is it happening inside her head as well the fun fact about the Joker serum too is that
it's actually derived from the Scarecrow fear toxin but we haven't had the Scarecrow inside
the Joaquin Phoenix Joker Universe yet and even though it is possible that he could use some
version of The Joker serum during this Joker sequel I don't think they're going to play it
that way I think they'll keep it in the realm of metaphor when he talks about sharing his Madness
with everyone like through his actions through the media people will watch it like the people
who are writing and it'll just get crazier and crazier and crazier and he'll start to win them
over through his actions and they will then begin to share in his Madness it's not like he's gonna
go around dumping a bunch of fear toxin or Joker toxin into the water supply that's the really
cool the really Insidious thing about the first Joker movie is that he doesn't need any kind of
Joker toxin like that it's all about the role of the media and all this like in the case of the
first movie it was his broadcast at the end that helped push his exploits to Legendary status but
at the time he was already building on an existing system of riots that all the people in Gotham had
been upset about the current Administration the growing problems in the city the whole
inequality between the common people who were riding in the ultra rich people represented by
Thomas Wayne Bruce Wayne's family he was in the middle of running for mayor and there were these
escalating series of riots throughout the movie as things got crazier and crazier and crazier
public outcries during his appearances eventually before he went full Joker at the end of the movie
he called The Crowd a bunch of clowns so already things were going really crazy in the city and
what was happening with the joker just kind of tipped that over the edge the whole thing with
him secretly being Thomas Wayne's son I think was actually a bit of a misdirect but the way
the movie plays it they want to be kind of ambiguous about it because you're meant to
be viewing everything in the film from Arthur's perspective so as he descends into madness you're
meant to see things get crazier and weirder and weirder like they wanted you to feel as
if there might have been a possibility that he was Thomas Wayne's son and they never confirmed that
it wasn't true even though they implied that it was all just this big delusion in reality I think
that his mother had suffered from mental delusions like he does in the movie like she had had mental
episodes when she was younger and she just fell in love with Thomas Wayne when her family was working
at his mansion and started to get creepy at his house and then they just imply that his family
kind of pushed her family out the door like okay you go off on your own no more working for us and
she just descended into a form of Madness and just came up with this delusion that she had
been in relationship with Thomas Wayne when that really wasn't the case so he's not really Thomas
Wayne's son but during the movie you notice even after Thomas Wayne yells at him and they have that
episode together that big encounter he calls him a crazy person Arthur does not stop believing that
it's true he's still obsessed with the wanes so the idea is that he had played a party clown and
Thomas Wayne had called the people like him like the Lower Class People a bunch of clowns acting
crazy he started to feel like his life was a joke eventually he just kind of owns all that
by wearing the name as his own mantle calling himself The Joker Matt Reeves actually had his
version of The Barry kyokin Joker in the Batman movie kind of say something similar like it's not
so bad being a clown the big difference during the Batman movie though is the ages of the Batman and
the Joker and the Joker is in prison and Arkham Asylum because Batman put him there they released
a deleted scene that was meant to be on the one year anniversary of him putting him in prison
so the Barry kilkin Joker was joking about that with him like isn't it our anniversary present
oh sorry anniversary isn't it so if it wasn't clear now obviously Matt Reeves has confirmed that
the Joker in his universe is not going to be the Joaquin Phoenix version of Joker and even though
they are doing all this crazy Multiverse stuff with The Flash movie The Joaquin Phoenix Joker
movie will still be set in an alternate universe it's still going to be rated R it's still going
to be part of DC's Black Label which is what they're using for their darker more hardcore
films especially ones that are set in alternate universes that aren't necessarily connected to
all the big dceu stuff most of the plot details are being kept in an underground bunker as you
would expect but based on what both Phillips and Phoenix had said previously the movie isn't going
to have like a massive time Jump the original movie took place during 1981 Joaquin Phoenix is
in his 50s in present day in real world but he was playing a 30 40-something Joker so any references
to Batman or any of the other pre-existing DC characters in The Joker sequel is just meant to
be a coincidence or in the case of this version of Batman just a totally new different version
of Batman the Joker sequels mostly just meant to move forward a little in the timeline to the next
logical event in Gotham so Bruce Wayne would still be a child living with Alfred he'd be a
little bit older but still be a child and there wouldn't be a bunch of Batman stuff happening
yet the other really big change that you probably just heard about that I mentioned earlier was Todd
Phillips separately being asked by the new powers that be at DC at Warner Brothers to come in and
advise on doing more films kind of like the Joker in the same vein like talking about more DC Black
Label types of movies that means more mid-budget movies like movies that are closer to like 90 100
million dollars about villain characters different from what you would think of your traditional big
superhero type of DC film like a Batman movie what probably changed recently about that is that James
Gunn is probably talking to him about potentially doing more stuff like that but they're trying to
figure out how that's going to fit with his new plan for the next 10 years of the main line of
DC movies Matt Reeves has talked about doing lots of spin-offs for his characters like there's the
Arkham Asylum TV show there's the other Batman based TV shows on the Robert Pattinson version of
Batman that's not meant to be DC Black Label stuff all the stuff that Todd Phillips would be doing or
helping advisor producing at Warner Brothers if other directors come on to do them is meant to
be a different line of continuity personally I actually think that's been one of DC's strengths
they just announced that Marvel is finally doing a Thunderbolts movie and they said that they pitched
it kind of like the Marvel version of a Suicide Squad film one of DC's big advantages over Marvel
the past couple years has been their willingness to do R-rated villain based films this also kind
of gets into what's going on with the bloodbath that was happening at HBO Max recently with all
the cancellations of TV shows and movies what they were mostly canceling with like the Batgirl movie
for instance is movies that they had originally just exclusively made for HBO backs like they're
not doing that anymore no more mid budget just for HBO max they're just doing theatrical films
now and that's basically what Todd Phillips plan always was like this was always going to be a
theatrical Joker 2 movie all the DC Black Label stuff that he might wind up doing in the future
that's all intended for a theater release what will happen though is that James Gunn is making
his big presentation about the next 10 years of DC movies to the Warner Brothers board the new
CEO and once that happens he'll probably make those plans public on his Twitter account or
at least some of the plans like I said it is a developing situation so we will continue to hear
about more changes coming up everyone click here to learn about the Batman Beyond movie they were
making with Michael Keaton and click here for my Guardians of the Galaxy 3 trailer video in Easter
eggs thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and I'll see you guys in the next one!