Everyone knows Joker's obsessed with Batman, and even Phillips thinks that fixation could be applied to his take of the villain.

Todd Phillips thinks that Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker would be a fan of Batman. Joker: Folie á Deux releases in United States theaters this coming October. The upcoming sequel is directed by Phillips and will see Phoenix reprise his role as the titular Joker.

That includes the Joker franchise, and its sequel Folie à Deux is the next upcoming DC movie heading to theaters. It's set in a unique timeline crafted by filmmaker Todd Phillips, who recently revealed how Joaquin Phoenix’s character would react to Batman.

Deathstroke was first introduced in 1980 to be a top-tier villain for the Teen Titans, but the super-enhanced master assassin grew to become one of DC’s most popular bad guys, squaring off against Batman and the Justice League, and headlining his own comic title several times.

Two key Batman villains are uniting for their own movie, which is set in the rebooted DC universe. The as-yet-untitled film stars Bane, the hulking figure famous for breaking Batman’s back, and Deathstroke,

Bane and Deathstroke are both interesting villains—we're just not sure we understand it Images: Funko Despite it now being nearly two years since Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was putting its beleaguered DC Comics line of superhero films into the hands of actual money makers James Gunn and Peter Safran,