DC's "Joker" director: We have no plans to shoot a sequel!

"We have no plans to make a sequel!" - Todd Phillips, the director of "Joker", winner of the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix, recently made a loud clarification at a press conference in Los Angeles. He said that during this period of time, rumors about him and the lead actor Joaquin Phoenix wanting to continue to cooperate in the sequel were spreading wildly on the Internet, which made him personally feel quite disgusted.

Phillips believes that some of his previous remarks were taken out of context. In an interview with Total Film, Phillips said "I will do whatever Joaquin wants to do", and the director explained that this does not mean to make a sequel to "Joker". They define it as an independent work rather than a series, that's all.

"Joker has always been a truly independent film, not an extension of the DC movie universe, nor the first work of an IP series. We made this movie and sold it to Warner. It exists in its own world, that's it."

"This is not about the creation of a new cinematic universe, nor is it about other pre-existing versions of the Joker. This is our own independent creation of the origin story of the anti-hero, that's all I think."