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One of the most awaited trailer of the season is finally OUT! 🎬
The Clown Prince of Crime and Harley Quinn want you to know that what the world needs now is… love.
That’s the message of the first trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which sees Joaquin Phoenix reprise his role as Arthur Fleck (who later becomes Batman’s notorious foe) and conspire with Lady Gaga as the equally twisted Harley Quinn.
The dark and gritty footage begins at Arkham Asylum — where Joker is locked up at the end of the first film — as Arthur Fleck has a deranged “meet cute” with another patient (you guessed it, Gaga’s Harley Quinn). After the chance encounter, they plan to break out of their straight jackets and take on the world beyond their padded cells. That brings them to the streets of Gotham, where they manically dance and twirl around the city.
“I’m nobody. I haven’t done anything with my life like you have,” Harley Quinn, who mimes shooting herself in the head with a finger gun, tells Joker.
“I’ll tell you what’s changed,” Joker says in the trailer. “I’m not alone anymore.”
Director Todd Phillips debuted the footage at CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie theater owners. Although the original 2019 “Joker” was billed as a “one-off,” Phillips said he and Phoenix always talked about making a sequel.
But director Todd Phillips noted that in some ways it’s not all that different from the first, which also had music as a key element.
Little is known about the plot of sequel, which is reportedly a jukebox musical. Phillips said categorization isn’t entirely accurate, though it will feature plenty of song and dance numbers.
“Joker 2” will debut on the big screen on Oct. 4, 2024 — exactly five years after the first film. The original cost $62.5 million to produce, an unusually conservative budget for a comic book adaptation. Given its runaway financial success, the follow-up was granted a much more substantial $200 million price tag.