Bad news Joker fans – Todd Phillips, the director of Joker and Joker 2, appears to be done bringing the crown prince of crime to the screen.

Phillips mentioned this in a recent interview following the release of Joker 2, aka Joker: Folie a Deux.

The film received mixed-to-positive reviews when released at the Venice Film Festival, however this week’s early screenings have seen catastrophic reviews from viewers.

This has culminated in a plummeting Rotten Tomatoes score, which at the time of writing has fallen as low as 39 percent.

Johnny Oleksinki of The New York Post said in their one-out-of-four-rated review: “For nearly two and a half hours, director Todd Phillips’ pathologically unnecessary movie cycles through so many potential reasons to exist… it ultimately never finds a satisfying one.”

Though it’s unclear how much was pre-planned and how much was in response to this reaction, Phillips is calling it quits.

He told The Hollywood Reporter, when asked about the possibility of a stand-alone film about Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn introduced in the sequel: “It’s not really where this movie is headed for me. I feel like my time in the DC Universe was these two films.”