The second trailer for Joker 2 is right here and extra twisted than a six-pack of arduous iced tea. It pulls again the curtain a bit extra on how the canonical love story/abusive relationship between Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker and Girl Gaga’s Harley Quinn will take heart stage within the sequel, however who’s going to be attempting to repair who?
Joker: Folie À Deux is out October 4. Followers received a peak on the romance musical earlier this 12 months with a teaser trailer and reporting that advised the film can be centered round over a dozen well-known songs remixed for the Gotham-based comedian e-book film. The brand new trailer provides a greater sense of the film’s setup, how Harley and the Joker meet up, and the retro present biz-styled chaos that can ensue.
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Incarcerated in Arkham Hospital after his rampage on the finish of the primary film, Arthur Fleck and Harleen Quinzel start indulging each other’s delusions of stardom whereas civil unrest boils up amongst disillusioned gangs of Jokerfied followers. The trailer ends with Joker and Harley on stage asking each other if they need to give the viewers what they need earlier than blowing up the theater.
It’s presumably a meta-nod to the strain between what comedian books followers may need from a Joker film and director Todd Phillips ambitions in making what some insiders have known as a “Jukebox musical” structured extra round vignettes after which overarching story. However the spotlight for me was seeing Brendan Gleeson present up as a jail guard chiding a smirking Phoenix.
2019’s Joker was a large field workplace hit, bringing in over $1 billion worldwide regardless of its small price range. It hit at simply the suitable time to offer individuals fatigued from overdosing on the cookie-cutter MCU a distinct tackle a comic book e-book character origin film, whereas additionally tapping into lots of widespread mythmaking populist undercurrents and anti-establishment sentiments in the course of the first Trump presidency. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the film has something to say about our nationwide rerun 5 years later or it seems like a relic from a distinct, pre-pandemic period.
