Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga are able to embrace the insanity (and fall in loopy love) within the new trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, set to reach in theaters on Oct. 4.
The 2-minute trailer, which dropped Tuesday, opens with Phoenix’s Joker seeing Gaga’s Harley Quinn for the primary time as he walks by way of the hallways of jail as a slowed, creepy model of Gene Wilder’s “Pure Creativeness” performs.
“We use music to make us entire. To steadiness the fractures inside ourselves,” a voiceover says as Phoenix and Gaga’s characters meet for the primary time.
“I’m no person. I haven’t completed something with my life like you will have,” she says. The trailer then devolves to point out Phoenix and Gaga holding fingers, being chased within the streets, dancing at a celebration, and the duo performing onstage, in addition to Gaga doing the Joker’s signature make-up.
“I’ll inform you what’s modified: I’m not alone anymore,” Phenox declares. “That’s what we ought to be speaking about.”
The top of the trailer sees Gaga visiting Pheonix at Arkham Asylum as she attracts a cheerful face on the glass separating them together with her purple lipstick. “I need to see the actual you,” she tells him.
The trailer marks the primary correct have a look at the long-awaited sequel to Todd Phillips’ anti-superhero origin movie concerning the traditional Batman villain. Together with Gaga and Phoenix, the movie boasts a stacked supporting solid of Zazie Beetz (reprising her function from the unique movie), Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Steve Coogan, Jacob Lofland, Ken Leung, and Harry Lawtey.
As teased within the trailer with a scene of the 2 acting on stage, Folie à Deux is anticipated to be a type of jukebox musical. Again in March, insiders advised Selection that the movie was anticipated to characteristic 15 reinterpretations of “very well-known” songs, and that composer Hildur Guðnadóttir would “infuse her distinctive, haunting [music] cues” into the numbers. On the time it was additionally famous that an authentic quantity or two might nonetheless make it into the movie, although there’s been no additional phrase on that but.
Throughout an look at Cinema Con, Phillips defined, “I wish to say it’s a movie the place music is a vital ingredient. To me, that doesn’t veer too removed from the primary movie. Arthur’s bizarre and aloof and all this stuff, however he has music in him. He has a grace to him. That knowledgeable a variety of the dancing within the first movie… It didn’t really feel like that massive of a step right here. It’s completely different, however I feel it’ll make sense while you see it.”
Joker was launched in 2019 and shortly grew to become a large hit, grossing greater than $1 billion on the international field workplace and selecting up 11 Oscar nominations. It ended up successful two awards, Finest Actor for Phoenix and Finest Authentic Rating for Guðnadóttir.
