‘The Batman 2’: Will the Joker be in the sequel? Barry Keoghan answers

After ‘The Batman’ was one of the 10 highest-grossing films of 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery is waiting for Matt Reeves’ franchise to sign a deal for a new film.

Lately, Reeves has made several spin-offs, including the series “The Penguin” or the one centered on the Gotham City Police Department. It is already known that another of the things that he had in his hands is the sequel to ‘The Batman’, for which he is already writing the screenplay. In a few weeks, he will reveal his plans to the heads of DC Studios, James Gunn and Peter Safran.

A big question is whether we will find the Joker as one of the protagonists in the sequel. Doubts are sown by one of the last scenes of the film in which we see Joker (Barry Keoghan) and Enigma (Paul Dano) strike up a friendship.

Despite the fact that Reeves has already told Variety the year of the premiere that the fact that the figure of the Joker came out in said scene That didn’t mean he was going to appear in more Batman movies., Keoghan has his own opinion. The Joker actor was recently on the Happy Sad Confused podcast where he said: “Of course I would like another appearance”adding: “I have a lot of character work behind me, but you know, it’s only if they decide to make the call, I have to respect that”. When asked what he would have done if the decision to cast the character had been his, he replied: “Definitely, why I have something else I’d like to add. At the moment, I have a little moleskin book that I’ve written a lot in, so yeah, I want people to see it.”.

A smile with background

The appearance of the Joker played by Keogahn has been compared a lot to that of the clown in “Joker: Death of the Family”, where his face is ripped off and reattached giving a completely disfigured appearance.

Reeves has confirmed that it is a Tribute to Conrad Veidt’s mutilated mouth in “The Man Who Laughs”the silent film that inspired the DC comic character: “He can never stop smiling. And that made us Mike [artista de maquillaje protésico] and to me thinking – he was talking about “The Elephant Man” because I love David Lynch – that maybe there’s something here other than he fell into a tank of chemicals or that it’s not a Christopher Nolan thing that has these scars we wear I don’t know where they come fromReeves explained: “What if it’s something you were born with and have a congenital condition that makes you unable to stop smiling? And he’s had this very dark reaction, and he’s had to go through a life where people look at him a certain way and he knows how to get inside their heads.”.