The wait has been almost 5 years since ‘Joker’, the reinvention of the Batman villain starring Joaquin Phoenix, conquered the box office in 2019, becoming the first film to exceed $1 billion with an R rating (not recommended for under 18 years old). But it was worth it. He is already here primer trailer for ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, the sequel in which Lady Gaga joins the story as Harley Quinn, and you can see it below:
We had already seen images of Arthur Fleck and Dr. Harleen Quinzel, the characters of Phoenix and Gaga, dancing with love in anticipation of a beautiful love story (in their own toxic way), and the trailer that was released in the early hours of Tuesday the 9th to Wednesday the 10th of April strengthen that idea and shows a Joaquin Phoenix ready to repeat the Oscar for Best Actor, with a desperate cry between crying and laughter.
However, the trailer still hides an ace up its sleeve. ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ will be a musical that will include at least 15 reinterpretations of “well-known” songs, such as ‘That’s Entertainment’, from Vicente Minelli’s 1953 musical ‘Broadway Melodies’, with Fred Astaire. Although it is not ruled out that there are additional original songs, possibly composed by Lady Gaga herself. But in the trailer we only hear one song, one new version of ‘What The World Needs Is Love’originally sung by Jackie DeShannon.
Last week we were also able to take a look at the first poster for the sequel, which will be in a universe completely separate from the new timeline that James Gunn is preparing for the DC superhero movies, and in which a hidden detail is hidden in the ‘Joker 2’ poster, with a very revealing phrase: “The world is a stage“.
‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, which could be translated as ‘Madness of two’shows us Fleck admitted to the Arkham psychiatric hospital after the riots, and there he will meet the doctor the patient Harleen Quinzel, dragging her to her state of alienation and starting a romantic relationship in which she will definitively become Harley Quinn, changing the origin of her character in the Batman universe.
As for whether we will have another nod to Bruce Wayne, Batman’s secret identity, like in the first film, Director Todd Phillips has claimed that this universe’s Arthur might not be the Joker we all associate as the Dark Knight villain., but an inspiration for this one, so we could also meet in this second installment another new character who becomes Bat Man’s nemesis. In fact, Phillips himself even spoke of a trilogy: “I presented three films, ‘Joker’ being the first with me, and then two others with two other different directors. But I don’t really want to name them, because then it will become news and I will drag these directors into this when I haven’t even told them anything. I only told Warner Bros.”
Don’t forget to take a look at our shot-by-shot analysis of the trailer for ‘Joker 2: Folie á Deux’, it will be released on October 4, 2024.
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