{"id":117382,"date":"2024-03-23T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/23\/report-joker-folie-a-deux-will-be-a-jukebox-musical-with-15-very-well-known-songs\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:01:56","slug":"report-joker-folie-a-deux-will-be-a-jukebox-musical-with-15-very-well-known-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/03\/23\/report-joker-folie-a-deux-will-be-a-jukebox-musical-with-15-very-well-known-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: ‘Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux’ will be a jukebox musical with 15 “very well-known songs”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While there may be some original songs included, the upcoming Lady Gaga\/Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong> movie sequel<\/a>\u00a0Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux\u00a0<\/em>will mostly be a jukebox musical, Variety<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jukebox musicals shoehorn already existing, popular songs into the plot line: Examples include Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge!, Movin’ Out, & Juliet, American Idiot, Jagged Little Pill<\/em>\u00a0and Once Upon a One More Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Insiders tell Variety<\/em> that the film will incorporate 15 “very well-known” songs, including “That’s Entertainment” from the 1953 musical The Bandwagon<\/em>. Even if original songs are added, it’s not known who would write or sing them.<\/p>\n

The Todd Phillips<\/strong> film is said to take place in and around Arkham Asylum \u2014 a location that’s a longstanding part of the Batman<\/em> universe \u2014 and focus on Phoenix’s Joker, aka Arthur Fleck, and his partner in crime, Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn. The rest of the cast includes Catherine Keener<\/strong>, Brendan Gleeson<\/strong> and Zazie Beetz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, the budget for the sequel is close to $200 million; the original cost $60 million, grossed over $1 billion worldwide and nabbed 11 Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n

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Gotham\/GC Images While there may be some original songs included, the upcoming Lady Gaga\/Joaquin Phoenix movie sequel\u00a0Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux\u00a0will mostly be a jukebox musical, Variety reports. Jukebox musicals shoehorn already existing, popular songs into the plot line: Examples include Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge!, Movin’ Out, & Juliet, American Idiot,Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}