One of the biggest question marks on the 2024 film calendar is “Joker-Folie-à-Deux-2024-movie-posters/”>Joker: Folie à Deux.” For the sequel to his Oscar-winning DC villain origin story, Todd Phillips blew up his narrative formula by deciding to make a musical.
Lady Gaga joined the franchise as Harley Quinn, but little is known about how Phillips plans to infuse music into his version of Gotham.
Film history is not exactly littered with superhero musicals, so it can be difficult for outside observers to gauge what his points of reference might be.However, cinematographer Lawrence Sher might have given fans one of their first big hints about the film’s influences.
Sher, who shot both “Joker” and “Folie à Deux,” recently revealed that he used an infamous Francis Ford Coppola musical as a point of reference.
In an interview with YouTuber Matti Haapoja, Sher listed Coppola’s 1981 film “One from the Heart” as one…
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