VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Venice Movie Pageant is on the brink of welcome Woman Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix for the world premiere of “Joker: Folie à Deux” Wednesday night.
Todd Phillips’ movie is without doubt one of the most extremely anticipated of the pageant, enjoying within the official competitors 5 years after “Joker” gained the Golden Lion. Warner Bros. is giving the darkish comedian guide movie the glitzy pageant therapy earlier than it’s launched in theaters in October.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” finds’ Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham and awaiting trial for his crimes. There he meets Gaga’s Harley Quinn.
“We knew we needed to swing for the fences; we wished to create one thing as loopy and fearless as Joker himself,” Phillips wrote in his administrators’ assertion. “So, Scott Silver and I wrote a script that delved additional into the concept of identification. Who’s Arthur Fleck? And the place does the music inside him come from?”
The Joker sequel is competing for the pageant’s predominant prizes in opposition to the likes of Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Subsequent Door,”Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,”Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” and Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl.” Awards might be offered on the ultimate day of the pageant, Sept. 7.
In a lineup filled with main Hollywood stars, together with the likes of Angelina Jolie, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, there’s additionally fairly a bit of pleasure about what Gaga may put on.
Six years in the past, for “A Star Is Born,” she performed the a part of film star completely, with grand appears to be like and entrances that gave the pageant a few of its most iconic photographs this century. Bear in mind her perched on the facet of the non-public water taxi in that black Jonathan Simkhai bustier gown, blowing kisses to followers and photographers? Later, for the crimson carpet, she wore a show-stopping pale pink feathered Valentino Couture robe that appeared to pop much more in opposition to the wet backdrop.
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