Todd Phillips Teases Potential Title For Joker Sequel, Joaquin Phoenix Return

Todd Phillips is at work on the planned sequel to Joker, and he teased the potential title in a new social media post. Phillips, who is co-writing the film with Scott Silver and will be back to direct, posted to Instagram with a pic of star Joaquin Phoenix reading the script as well as the cover of the screenplay, dated May 18th and titled Joker: Folie à Deux.

Folie à deux is defined by the National Library of Medicine as “an identical or similar mental disorder affecting two or more individuals, usually the members of a close family.” It goes on to state that:

The term folie à deux includes several syndromes in which mental symptoms, particularly paranoid delusions, are transmitted from one person to one or more others with whom the apparent instigator is in some way intimately associated so that he or she and they come to share the same delusional ideas.

It was reported back in May of 2021 that Phillips had closed a deal to co-write the planned sequel. The original film, which starred Phoenix in a standalone origin story of the DC villain, grossed $1.074 billion worldwide and earned 11 Oscar nominations. It won two — one for Pheonix for Best Actor, and one for Hildur Guðnadóttir for Best Original Score.

No word on if the new film as any potential release date. It must also be said that this may not be the final title, as titles often change during the development stage all the way through to production.