Lady Gaga

"Joker 2" was trending into the small hours as Gaga fans hit social media to share their thoughts and reaction.

joker and harley in joker 2— tabitha (@cinedruig) pic.twitter.com/dNwP3aEOTR June 14, 2022 this Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, abso-f*cking-lutely— gaga (@thegagasource_) pic.twitter.com/bQuOnVBbBc June 14, 2022 None of this is confirmed, though stranger things have happened.

Lady Gaga is in early talks to star opposite Joaquin Phoenix in a sequel to “Joker,” which will be musical.

It’s believed that Gaga’s Harley Quinn will exist in a different DC universe from Margot Robbie’s in the “Suicide Squad” movies. At the end of its time in theaters, it was the fourth highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. “Joker,” released in 2019, had a record-breaking opening weekend and grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.

Lady Gaga (a butts-in-seats movie star) as Harley Quinn (a marquee character) in a musical sequel to 'Joker' is the kind of idea that makes me excited for a ...

Phillips was a producer on A Star Is Born, and this sequel may just borrow that film’s plot (past his prime celebrity takes a newbie under his wing and watches her surpass him). I’ve often said that an effective way to make a solid kid's flick is to just remake an acclaimed grown-up film (Peter Rabbit = Rushmore, Pete’s Dragon = Mama, etc.). Joker: Folie à Deux probably won’t explicitly be kid-friendly, but I digress. Joker obviously clicked for audiences, and the delays of No Time to Die, Wonder Woman 1984 and Sonic the Hedgehog left Joker as almost the only game in town (especially after Terminator: Dark Fate and Charlie’s Angels bombed) between itself and Frozen II in mid-November. One reason for its success was that it was, for October and much of November, the franchise/event movie tentpole, the seasonal horror film and the commercially friendly awards season flick all wrapped up into one. There were next to no incidents of even minor misbehavior traced back to Joker in North America, instead the movie opened to $96 million and legged out to $334 million domestic and (without China) $1.073 billion worldwide, essentially tied with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. A Joker sequel was both inevitable (when a $65 million comic book flick earns $1.073 billion worldwide, it gets a sequel) and likely to earn much less than its predecessor. Joker hit theaters in October of 2019 in a storm of (then and now) ridiculous controversy. Nope, and honestly even Lady Gaga as Quinn in a straight drama is of little interest, even though she would have been a commercial boon regardless.

Gaga is in early talks to play Harley Quinn, a psychiatrist who falls in love with Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) during his stay at the Arkham Asylum and later ...