Todd McFarlane Thinks ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Was Good – Offers To Improve It: “Give me all the film, put me in a room for three days, and let me edit it”

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ premiered to terrible reviews from both critics and audiences. Right now, it has only a 32% approval rating from both groups (critics and audience), marking it as “rotten.

It also earned a “D” on CinemaScore, the lowest rating yet for a superhero movie—though calling ‘Joker 2’ a superhero movie or even a comic adaptation is a bit of a stretch.

The movie bombed at the box office and bombed once again on PVOD, and quite frankly based on its nightmarish development we could expect nothing more. Lady Gaga was reportedly surprised at this turn of events, but it seems not everyone who was involved with the development of the movie was shocked to see the movie failing.

Most recently, legendary comic book artist Todd McFarlane shared his thoughts on Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ and suggested ways to improve the 2024 DC film, which has faced criticism.

McFarlane recognizes the negative feedback and thinks some parts of the movie could be adjusted to make it flow better. He believes there’s a version of ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ that could shine with the right tweaks and even jokes about editing the film himself.

Have you seen Joker 2 yet? What were your thoughts on it? I know that a lot of people were divided on it, to say the least.

Todd McFarlane: Yeah, I thought it was interesting. I spend time with Scott Silver, one of the guys who wrote it. I was out lunch with him, and he’s like, “Have you seen it?” I was like, “No, but I should.” So, my wife and I went and saw it. I liked it more than she did.

I can understand some of the criticism as I watched it, but just from filmmaking and acting and whatever else, there were parts of it that I was just going, “Wow, wow, wow.” Interestingly, I got to the point where I go, “Oh, I see.” And with my ego – I’m going to put my ego out there – I go, “Give me all the film, put me in a room for three days, and let me edit it.” I think there’s a hybrid in there that would work for what it was.

Again, I’m being completely biased and egotistic here of what it was that I thought it was going to be in my head, but when I went in there with the insanity of the music, I think there’s a way to crazy it up more. But that’s just me. Some people saw it and they weren’t fans of it, and other people loved it. I think it elicits an opinion no matter who sees it.

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