The upcoming Joker: Folie a Deux will be a musical costarring Lady Gaga, and that’s basically the best news I could have heard about it. Not because that’s what I was clamoring for all along, but because it’s a fresh concept that could push back against superhero fatigue and once again prove the value of midbudget, original filmmaking. Those kinds of films have been through hard times recently, which has been explained well in videos like REKRAP’s “Knives Out Ruined Cinema Here’s Why,” as the industry has become polarized between small indie films and massive blockbusters. I sympathize with this concern, but I think there might be room for more styles than we think even within massive franchise IPs.