![]() ![]() Duela took the face and began to wear it as a mask amongst the sewer nomads of Gotham City under the new name of, "Joker's Daughter"ĭuela would go on to track down the Dollmaker and arrange for him to surgically graft the severed face of the Joker onto her own where it has since remained. The Joker's face would find its way through the subterranean rivers of Gotham to its sewers where it was found by the deranged Duela Dent. As he fell, his mask became dislodged and floated down after him to a presumed watery grave. When Batman bluffed about having known Joker's real name, Joker attacked Batman with a taser joy-buzzer to the face before letting him say it and as a result fell down a subterranean water-fall. Joker would remain in this mask for the remainder of his plan to destroy the bat-family, a mission which ended with a farce dinner within the very caves of the Batcave.ĭuring a fight with Batman in the caves, Batman began turning the tables on Joker by calling Joker's own identity and allure into question. Joker would use straps, clips and pins to retrofit the flesh of his old face into a mask which he wore over his now exposed tendons, hiding how he now looked. He would psychologically torture James Gordon before stealing his old face back and vanishing. During this time, the face went into custody of the GCPD where it was kept in a refrigerated case.Ībout a year later, the Joker broke into the GCPD building where he cut the power and murdered several police-officers with his bare hands by snapping their necks in the dark from behind. The Joker disappeared off the face of the Earth with Batman being unable to track him down. Dollmaker later went in person to as Joker refused any other way and after Dollmaker finished, the two murderers arranged to celebrate his rebirth before leaving the clown's face on the cell-wall for Batman to find. Dollmaker sent his, "Son" to do the procedure only for Joker to brutally murder him by tearing out his throat with his teeth. To see this through, Joker arranged for the serial-killer known as the Dollmaker to remove his face surgically in Arkham Asylum. According to the Joker, he did this to symbolize how even without his, "Mask" he was still the joker where-as Batman's Robins and Bat-Girls' identities were only mask-deep. Similarly, DC Studios' co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran confirmed that both Joker and Matt Reeves' The Batman will be set in the Elseworlds continuity of the new DC Universe.When the Joker became obsessing over destroying the Bat-Family, he decided to arrange for his face to be surgically removed. Meant to serve as an origin story to the infamous Batman villain, Joker is set in a self-contained universe. When it was released in theaters in 2019, Joker grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing DC film ever at the time. News of a Joker sequel came after reports that greenlighting a follow-up to Joker was a priority for the new Warner Bros. The sequel will be written by Phillips and Scott Silver. Phillips officially confirmed that a follow-up to 2019's Joker would be moving forward under the title Joker: Folie à deux, named for a phenomenon in which two or more individuals experience an identical or similar mental disorder. Starring Phoenix, the musical sequel to Joker will focus on the romance between the Clown Prince of Crime and Harley Quinn. ![]() RELATED: How Joker: Folie à Deux May Be Inspired By a Real Case Study We like when there is a little bit of chaos." Hopefully, we’ll also have a bit of madness in there. ![]() The first look at Phoenix's return as Arthur Fleck/Joker was revealed in December 2022.Īccording to Folie à Deux cinematographer Lawrence Sher, Gaga "will create a similar kind of magic that Joaquin brought by himself." He added, "The combination of the two will be exactly what we hope, which is exciting, and we’ll find magic every day on set. Alongside the acclaimed actor/singer in the image is Joaquin Phoenix, reprising his role as the Clown Prince of Crime. In February, Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips released the first image of Lady Gaga's performance as Harley Quinn. It was announced in August 2022 that Lady Gaga had joined the cast of Folie à Deux. The look is reminiscent of the character's classic harlequin costume, which she has been a staple of Harley Quinn since her debut in Batman: The Animated Series back in 1992. Photos from the same Folie à Deux set also showed Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn walking in and out of what appears to be the Gotham City courthouse, wearing a red, black and white outfit. ![]()
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