IndieWire recently asked Phillips about Sophie's fate during a video interview with Anne Thompson, to which the director doubled down on the answer that Sophie is alive at the end of “Joker.” “He doesn't kill her, definitively,” Phillips said. “As the filmmaker and the writer I am saying he doesn't kill her.
A great array of talented performers will be joining Phoenix and Gaga in the musical sequel. Zazie Beetz, who memorably played Sophie, the beautiful neighbor who Arthur stalks in the 2019 film, will reprise her role.
One of the biggest revelations in Joker was that Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck's relationship with Zazie Beetz 's Sophie was not real and was all inside his mind. This, according to Beetz, was not set from the start and Sophie's role and story actually evolved and changed during filming.
Following her introduction to the comics in 1999, Harley Quinn was depicted as the sidekick and lover of the Joker as well as the criminal associate and best friend of fellow supervillain Poison Ivy.
Sophie reacts with confusion and an insincere smile and then continues her way. Arthur becomes obsessed with her and, the following day, decides to follow her to the bank where she works. It is implied that, from this point on, Arthur starts hallucinating about having a relationship with Sophie.
Director Of Joker Reveals The Fate Of Zazie Beetz's Character
Did Arthur actually date Sophie?
One of the biggest revelations in Joker was that Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck's relationship with Zazie Beetz's Sophie was not real and was all inside his mind. This, according to Beetz, was not set from the start and Sophie's role and story actually evolved and changed during filming.
After Todd Phillips spoke out on the matter himself and the film's official script was released online in 2019, it was eventually confirmed that Arthur didn't kill Sophie in Joker.
To make this happen, the most famous clown in comics persuades the wizard Zatanna, however, she wants nothing to do with the Joker and she casts a spell but it backfires and he is the one that becomes pregnant.
In the comic released January 4th, the magician Zantana casts a spell to ensure that no one else will ever have the Joker's baby. But her true intention gets twisted in the spell and the Joker himself gets pregnant.
The comics series The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing features Batman's nemesis get pregnant after a curse is placed on him, Daily Mail reported. Eventually, the Joker "vomits a sort of brown goo" that transforms first into a baby boy and then into a mini version of himself.
Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life. People with Histrionic Personality Disorder are “pervasive and excessive emotionally and display attention-seeking behavior” (Bornstein 1998).
Penny Fleck was the adoptive mother of Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable failed comedian who would later call himself the Joker. Much like her son, Penny suffered from an unspecified mental illness.
Arthur and Sophie fall fast in love, or so the movie would you have think. In reality, Arthur's entire relationship with Sophie was in his mind. This comes to a head when, in the second half of the movie, Arthur visits Sophie in her apartment and she is alarmed, given they had no relationship in reality.
No stranger to shocking storylines, the Joker became pregnant and gave birth in a new comic from DC Comics. In the latest issue of the Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing, the iconic Batman is placed in an unexpected story that sees the Clown Prince of Crime introduce a miniature Joker to the world.
In "Knocked Upside Down" from The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #4 (by Matthew Rosenberg, Francesco Francavilla, Tom Napolitano), the Joker is cursed by Zatanna after he makes a pass at her and ends up becoming pregnant with his own child.
The meatiest of these roles is that of Fleck's love interest, Sophie Dumond, played by Zazie Beetz. Sophie appears to enjoy the attention Fleck pays her: when she notices Fleck following her to work, she's flattered; they soon begin dating.
As mentioned previously, Joker's surface-level position is that Penny Fleck was delusional, imagined the affair with Thomas Wayne, and what's more, actually wasn't even Arthur's birth mother.
She again called herself the Joker's Daughter and traded chattering teeth and riddles for more deadly accessories. She was shot to death by Batman IV, Tim Drake of the future. Before she was killed, she hinted that she knew more about him when he was younger.
DC has made it common not to give The Joker any solid backstory or family, but they still managed to accidentally give him a son. Due to DC canceling a comic just a bit too early, they unintentionally left Joker with a son in the form of Lonnie Machin, also known as Anarky.
The shot actually comes from Harley Quinn who, in Batman #99, showed that she was willing to put the Joker down -- permanently. Her shot doesn't kill Joker, but it does take out his right eye, and it's no accident.
Besides having schizophrenia, Arthur Fleck was also identified as having Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) disease. Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) is a condition in which a person cannot control their laughter or crying.
Batman and Joker definitely aren't brothers in the comics. While the Joker movie plays very deeply with this idea, it still maintains the same stance. In the books, Joker's origin story has been a mystery. Readers have come across multiple different ones over the years.
