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‘Joker 2’ Team ‘Very Often’ Met in Joaquin Phoenix’s Trailer to ‘Tear the Script Up and Start All Over’: ‘It’s Three Hours Later and You’re Rewriting It on a Napkin’
Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga and Todd Phillips would meet often to tear up the "Joker 2" script and start all over.
The inmates are running the asylum.” It appears the director got his wish in part from his leading star Joaquin Phoenix, who would throw out the script on a whim and gather with Phillips and co-star Lady Gaga in his trailer to rewrite entire scenes from the ground up. “Joker: Folie à Deux” picks up the story with Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck standing trial for murder after he shot a man dead on live television in the first movie. Ridley Scott revealed to Empire during last year’s “Napoleon” press tour that that casting Phoenix as the French emperor resulted in the script being entirely rewritten to make the actor more comfortable.
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