Don't worry, Todd Phillips: Nick Lutsko already wrote your Joker 2 musical opener
Lady Gaga has got some big clown shoes to fill over here
Many of us are still processing the news that Todd Phillips not only already penned his Joker sequel, but that it’s a… um… musical entitled, Joker: Folie Á Deux probably costarring Lady Gaga alongside Joaquin Phoenix, presumably as an operatically sad version of Harley Quinn. We say “many of us,” because at least one person has clearly processed said news, and already he has some ideas. That person, of course, is longtime Gremlins advocate and deposed King of Halloween, Nick Lutsko.
Somehow, someway, Lutsko not only penned the “First song from the new Joker musical” within 36 hours of everyone learning about the project’s existence, but he enlisted frequent video collaborator, Brielle Garcia, to provide us with all the nightmarish CGI dancing Gremlin-human-Joker hybrids one could want.
As has come to be expected, Lutsko’s latest tune is catchier than it has any right to be, and we admire his ability to cobble together pretty accurate Joker attire and makeup at a moment’s notice: