“We have no plan for a sequel,” Joker director Todd Phillips recently said at a post-screening reception for press in Los Angeles. The director was clarifying comments he made in an earlier interview after reports of Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix wanting to make a Joker sequel swirled online, which Phillips admitted he found “annoying.”
Phillips took the opportunity to say his words about a potential sequel were taken out of context in a Total Film interview. “The quote was, ‘I will do anything Joaquin wants to do.’ And I would. But the movie’s not set up to
Source: IGN.com Joker Director: No Plans to Make a Sequel