Get the latest gossip

Tarantino Praises Joker 2, Says It’s Indebted to His Own Natural Born Killers: ‘I Really, Really Liked It. Really. A Lot. Like, Tremendously'

Quentin Tarantino is not among Joker 2 detractors: The film, aka Joker: Folie à Deux, is a critically reviled box-office bomb, sure. But Tarantino sees it as

But Tarantino sees it as a spiritual successor to his Natural Born Killers script, and believes that Todd Phillips’ film feels as if it were directed by the Joker himself. He noted that the first Joker, a massive hit that grossed more than a billion dollars for Warner Bros. in 2019, was largely an homage to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and King of Comedy. He likened Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga’s Lee Quinzel to Mickey and Mallory, the serial-killer couple in Natural Born Killers.

Get the Android app