Folie à Deux (score from the original film soundtrack) by Oscar and Grammy-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX Music from the original film soundtrack – music: Hildur Guđnadóttir (photo: Business Wire)

Now available digitally

Vinyl records and CDs available for pre-order

LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WaterTower Music today announced the release of its long-awaited album Joker: Folie à Deux (score from the original film soundtrack)which includes 19 songs from the long-awaited Todd Phillips album Joker: Folie à Deuxwhich hits theaters on October 4^vol. The soundtrack is available now digitally and pre-orders are available in vinyl/CD formats. Additionally, the original will be available for pre-order on vinyl and CD Joker results Live! with Murray Franklin.

Joker: Folie à Deux (score from the original film soundtrack) reunites composer Hildur Guðnadóttir with writer, director and producer Todd Phillips after their collaboration on the latter’s 2019 blockbuster Joker, which grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office and an Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy and BAFTA for Guðnadóttir. For Phillips, the decision was to bring her back to compose music Joker: Folie à Deux it was easy. He had this to say: “There wasn’t a version of this movie where we didn’t call on Hildur to do the music. I think her music is basically the second most important character in the first movie.

Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Arthur Fleck, reflects on the influence of Guðnadóttir’s music on his performance, noting: “Hildur’s music played a huge role in the first film and also developed certain parts of the character. I think I found this character by listening to her music on set while shooting the movie. It’s a really special feeling every time something comes to life this way and you have to capture it on film. From that moment on, I felt that Hildur’s character and music were closely linked.”

For her part, Guðnadóttir was excited about the new challenges the film presented. Arthur’s theme took on a new role and to capture this, she invented a new instrument. “Arthur’s theme is like a sonic thread that runs through many different scenes, trying to find its place, just as Arthur goes through this film. He tries to find his place between reality and fantasy, Arthur and the Joker, fall in love or be deceived. The sound world we had before (na Joker) it was very string-based and I started imagining Arthur in prison and how I could bring this sound world into the prison, really make this confined space out of strings. I worked with instrument makers from Iceland to help me build what I call a string prison, which consisted of very long strings strung through the space that formed the prison. I used the trench cello to play the string prison where Arthur is held captive by the sound of the strings, and I brought that sense of joy to the claustrophobia of this terrifying situation.

Joker: Folie à Deux (score from the original film soundtrack) TRACK LIST:

It’s show time
That stupid laugh
Same old Joker
The real you
Back to TV
Buy me a drink first?
Test of the century
My mother got me involved
Saints
Second half
Social services
Knock, knock
Double
That’s it, people
Old quarter
Oh, I’m in trouble
Voices
There is no Joker
It’s all theater

ABOUT JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX

It comes from acclaimed writer, director and producer Todd Phillips Joker: Folie À Deuxthe long-awaited sequel to the 2019 Oscar-winning film Jokerwhich grossed over $1 billion worldwide and was until recently the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. The new film stars Joaquin Phoenix 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, as well as Zazie Beetz, who reprises her role from the film Joker.

Joker: Folie À Deux discovers that Arthur Fleck is in the Arkham Closed Facility awaiting trial for his crimes as the Joker. Struggling with his double identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that has always been inside him.

Phillips, nominated for an Oscar for directing, writing and producing Jokerdirected Joker: Folie À Deux from a script by fellow Oscar nominee Scott Silver & Phillips, based on DC characters. The film was produced by Phillips, Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Joseph Garner. Lady Gaga was a music consultant. The film’s executive producers are Michael E. Uslan, Georgia Kacandes, Silver, Mark Friedberg and Jason Ruder.

His team including Phillips works behind the camera Jokerincluding Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lawrence Sher, production designer Mark Friedberg, Oscar-nominated editor Jeff Groth and composer Hildur Guđnadóttir, who won an 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 musical producer, with Randall Poster and George Drakoulias serving as musical supervisors. .

Warner Bros. Pictures presents a joint production: a film by Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie À Deux. The film will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and will be available in theaters nationwide on October 4, 2024 and internationally on October 2, 2024.

ABOUT HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR

HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR is an Icelandic artist, winner of an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a two-time Grammy, a BAFTA and an Emmy, who manifests herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary music. Her work for film, television and video games includes Joker, TAR, Women talking, Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene“Battlefield 2042” by Electronic Arts and the HBO series Chernobyl. She was voted Television Composer of the Year and Film Composer of the Year by the World Soundtrack Academy. Her latest projects include Heddadirected by Nia DaCosta and her meeting with director Todd Philip Joker: Folie à Deux.

ABOUT WATER MUSIC

WaterTower Music, the in-house label of Warner Bros. Discovery, releases recorded music as rich and diverse as the companies themselves. Since 2001, it has been the soundtrack to many of the world’s most iconic films, TV shows and games.

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