WaterTower Music has announced the release of the highly anticipated Joker: Folie à Deux (Score from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), which features 19 tracks from Todd Phillips’ highly anticipated Joker: Folie à Deux, arriving in theaters on October 4th. The soundtrack is available now digitally and Vinyl/ CD formats are available for pre-order. Additionally up for pre-order on vinyl and CD will be the original Joker score and Live! with Murray Franklin.
Joker: Folie à Deux (Score from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) reteams composer Hildur Guðnadóttir with writer/director/producer Todd Phillips following their collaboration on the latter’s 2019 blockbuster Joker, which earned more than $1 billion at the global box office and an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Grammy and BAFTA award for Guðnadóttir. For Phillips, the decision to bring her back to compose the music for Joker: Folie à Deux was an easy one. He had this to say: “There was no version of this film where we weren’t calling Hildur to do the score. I think her music is basically the second biggest character in the first film.”
Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Arthur Fleck, reflects on the impact Guðnadóttir’s music had on his performance, noting, “Hildur’s score was a huge part of the first film, and really the development of certain parts of the character; I think I found the character while listening to her music on set, with film rolling. And that’s a really special feeling, any time something comes alive in that way, and to have it captured on film. From that moment, I felt like the character and Hildur’s music were very closely tied together.”
For her part, Guðnadóttir was excited by the new challenges this film created. The theme for Arthur took on a new role and to capture this, she invented a new instrument. “Arthur’s theme is like a thread of sound that goes in many different scenes, trying to find its place, like what Arthur is going through in this film. He’s trying to find his place between reality and fantasy, Arthur and Joker, being in love or being made a fool of. The sound world we had before [on Joker] was very string-based, and I started imagining Arthur in the prison and how I could take that sound world and turn it into a prison, really make this confined space out of strings. I worked with instrument builders from Iceland to help me build what I call a string prison, which consisted of very long strings that are strung through a space forming a prison. I used a trench cello to play through the string prison, where Arthur is held captive by the sound of the strings, and bring this sense of joy married with claustrophobia in this horrific situation.”
ABOUT JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX
From acclaimed writer/director/producer Todd Phillips comes Joker: Folie À Deux, the much-anticipated follow-up to 2019’s Academy Award-winning Joker, which earned more than $1 billion at the global box office and was until recently the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. The new film stars Joaquin Phoenix once again in his Oscar-winning dual role as Arthur Fleck/Joker, opposite Oscar winner Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born). The film also stars Oscar nominees Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener, alongside Zazie Beetz, reprising her role from Joker.
Joker: Folie À Deux finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that’s always been inside him.
Phillips, who was nominated for Oscars for directing, writing and producing Joker, directed Joker: Folie À Deux from a screenplay by fellow Oscar nominee Scott Silver & Phillips, based on characters from DC. The film was produced by Phillips, Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Joseph Garner. Lady Gaga served as music consultant. The film’s executive producers are Michael E. Uslan, Georgia Kacandes, Silver, Mark Friedberg and Jason Ruder.
Working with Phillips behind the camera are his team from Joker, including Oscar-nominated director of photography Lawrence Sher, production designer Mark Friedberg, Oscar-nominated editor Jeff Groth, and composer Hildur Guđnadóttir, who won the Oscar for her work on the first film. New to the team is Oscar-nominated costume designer Arianne Phillips. Ruder is the film’s executive music producer and the music supervisors are Randall Poster and George Drakoulias.
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents A Joint Effort Production, A Film by Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie À Deux. The film will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, and will be only in theaters nationwide on October 4, 2024, and internationally beginning on 2 October 2024.
ABOUT HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR
HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, 2x Grammy-, BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Icelandic artist, who has been manifesting herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary. Her work for Film, Television, and Video Games includes Joker, TÁR, Women Talking, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalena, Electronic Arts’ “Battlefield 2042,” and the HBO series Chernobyl. She was named Television Composer of the Year and Film Composer of the Year by the World Soundtrack Academy. Her latest projects are Hedda, directed by Nia DaCosta, and her reunion with director Todd Philip on Joker: Folie á Deux.
ABOUT WATERTOWER MUSIC
WaterTower Music, the in-house label for the Warner Bros Discovery companies, releases recorded music as rich and diverse as the companies themselves. It has been the soundtrack home to many of the world’s most iconic films, television shows and games since 2001.
TRACKLIST
1. It’s Showtime
2. That Dumb Laugh
3. Same Ol’ Joker
4. The Real You
5. Back on TV
6. Buy Me a Drink First?
7. Trial of the Century
8. My Mother Had Me Committed
9. The Saints
10. The Other Half
11. Social Services
12. Knock Knock
13. Doppelgänger
14. That’s All, Folks
15. Old Neighborhood
16. Uh Oh, I’m in Trouble
17. Voices
18. There Is No Joker
19. It’s All Theater
