Little Monsters keep calm—Girl Gaga is returning to the silver display for the primary time in over two years. The singer and actress, who final appeared within the Oscar-nominated Home of Gucci, will tackle the function of Arkham’s resident clown princess, Harley Quinn, in director Todd Phillips’ upcoming musical thriller, Joker: Folie à Deux.
The movie is the sequel to Phillips’ 2019 Joker which gained Joaquin Phoenix his Greatest Actor trophy at that yr’s Academy Awards. The blockbuster has formally wrapped filming and there have been a couple of hints as to what audiences can anticipate as soon as the film hits theaters. Beneath, all the things to learn about Joker: Folie à Deux.
What’s the plot of Joker: Folie à Deux?
Plot particulars have been largely saved underneath wraps, however the movie will heart on the second Harley Quinn (Gaga) and Arthur Fleck/The Joker (Phoenix) fall in love at Gotham Metropolis’s Arkham Asylum. 2019’s Joker left audiences on a cliffhanger when Fleck escaped jail after being incarcerated for inciting riots. The trailer suggests Fleck is now awaiting trial for his crimes.
Insiders near manufacturing instructed Selection that the movie will characteristic a heavy musical aspect, calling the mission “largely a jukebox musical.” The soundtrack is rumored to characteristic at the very least 15 interpretations of “very well-known” songs—together with “That’s Leisure” from the 1953 musical The Band Wagon—in addition to at the very least one authentic observe. The movie’s composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who labored on the unique movie, is alleged to have “infused her distinctive, haunting [music] cues.”
Is there a trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux?
The second Joker trailer was launched on July 23 forward of the movie’s debut on the Venice Movie Pageant in August. The trailer begins with a martyr-like Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) at the back of a police van as he makes his approach right into a courthouse for the “trial of the century.”
Girl Gaga’s Harley Quinn is fascinated by Fleck, saying within the trailer “For as soon as in my life, I didn’t really feel so alone anymore.” Later within the trailer, Phoenix addresses onlookers maintaining tabs on his court docket case, yelling “I’ll now not enable any of you to maintain me down!” At one level, Gaga and Phoenix take to a stage collectively (more likely to carry out, as Joker has a heavy musical aspect) earlier than they proceed to wreak havoc throughout New York Metropolis.
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The movie’s first teaser trailer dropped April 9 after director Todd Phillips introduced it at CinemaCon. The 2-and-a-half-minute clip opens with Phoenix’s Joker/Arthur Fleck in solitary confinement at Arkham Asylum, the place he’s being taunted by guards. As he’s led down a hallway, he locks eyes with fellow affected person Harley Quinn (Gaga), and there’s clearly chemistry. “We use music to make ourselves entire,” a voiceover says. “To stability the fractures in ourselves.” As the 2 fall in love on the hospital, Harley tells Joker, “I’m no one. I haven’t accomplished something with my life like you will have.”
Notably, Gaga’s vocals sound little just like the nasal rasp actress Arleen Sorkin used within the Nineteen Nineties Saturday morning basic Batman: The Animated Collection. The character originated on that present, and Sorkin’s efficiency is usually credited with Harley’s recognition; portrayals of Quinn normally pay homage to Sorkin’s work.
She later means that they “get out of right here,” and the remainder of the teaser reveals Harley and Joker dancing and operating wild collectively, performing Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Wants Now Is Love” and wreaking havoc on the streets. On the finish, the Joker is requested, “What’s modified?” He replies, “I’ll inform you what’s modified. I’m not alone anymore. That’s what we ought to be speaking about,” earlier than breaking into maniacal laughter.
Watch the trailer under:
In early 2023, photographers additionally captured the actors on set. The film was filmed between New York Metropolis, Los Angeles, and New Jersey—it even includes a scene exterior of the Manhattan Prison Court docket.
Who’s within the solid of Joker: Folie à Deux?
Gaga isn’t the one A-lister becoming a member of the all-star Joker: Folie à Deux solid. Like Phoenix, Joker alumni Zazie Beatz, Leigh Gill, and Sharon Washington will all reprise their roles. The solid additionally consists of Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, Steve Coogan, Ken Leung, and Harry Lawtey.
Why is Girl Gaga taking part in Harley Quinn as a substitute of Margot Robbie?
Earlier than she was Barbie, Margot Robbie embodied Harley Quinn in three movies: Suicide Squad (2016), Birds of Prey (2020), and The Suicide Squad (2021). These three tasks are in a distinct DC “universe” than the Joker collection, the latter of which is darker and extra critical. Additionally provided that the sequel entails a big musical aspect, the classically-trained Gaga looks as if a pure match.
“It makes me so glad as a result of I mentioned from the very starting that each one I need is for Harley Quinn to be a type of characters—the best way Macbeth or Batman all the time will get handed from nice actor to nice actor,” Robbie mentioned in 2022. Throughout a more moderen interview, Robbie sang Gaga’s praises, telling Selection that “she’s going to crush it. Are you kidding? She’s going to be superb, I can’t wait to see it.”
Does Joker: Folie à Deux have a launch date?
Joker: Folie à Deux is ready to be launched theatrically in the US on October 4, 2024.
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