Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix: here is the trailer for the new “Joker”

“Joker: Folie à Deux”, sequel to the film “Jocker” is a musical – and bloody – work with Joaquin Phoenix And Lady Gaga which grows into a symphony of violence.

With just two months to go until the film hits theaters (scheduled for October 2), the new full trailer takes us deep into the shared psychosis of Phoenix’s Joker and Harley Quinn. Lady Gagaa pair of lovers who team up to take revenge on a town that they believe has ostracized them from society.

The new trailer opens with Phoenix as Arthur Fleckwhile being transported in the back of a car to Gotham City’s infamous Arkham Asylum. He starts laughing when a voice on the radio calls him “something of a martyr,” but is quickly proven wrong by finding a partner in crime (literally). Arthur ends up forming a romantic bond with Harleen Quinzel (Lady Gaga), a fellow student who, judging by her penchant for the institution’s piano, has a musical talent that enchants her new love interest. She even sweetly sings the words to “Get Happy” (the classic tune from 1952’s “Singin’ in the Rain”) to inspire her man before they unleash their reign of terror on the city.

“When I first saw Joker, when I saw you, for once in my life, I didn’t feel so alone,” Harley says in the preview, before smashing a store window and stealing a television. Things get worse as the trailer progresses, with Joker and Harley feeding off each other’s insanity and Arthur ramping up the violence in the ongoing trial for the crimes he committed in the first film. The clip finally shows Joker picking up a hammer and using it to bash the judge’s head in.

New Trailer For Director’s Joker Sequel Todd Phillips It arrives just under four months after the project’s first teaser, which brought back Oscar winner Phoenix as the beloved character she first played in 2019’s Joker, as well as introducing Lady Gaga’s role as Harley Quinn.

In this clip – with the soundtrack of “What the World Needs Now Is Love“, 1965 song written by Hal David And Burt Bacharachreleased as a single by the American singer Jackie DeShannon in April 1965 – the pair wreak havoc on Gotham City in an aesthetic reminiscent of movie musicals of the past, all the way back to “La La Land.”

Also in the preview, the stage lights blare out the title of a (potentially fictional) variety show called Joker & Harley, where many of the duo’s “dream ballet”-style performances may culminate. The footage ends with a particularly disturbing shot of Harley drawing Joker’s signature bright red lips on a glass panel separating the prisoners from their visitors.

Phillips previously spoke about the tone of the new film at CinemaCon earlier this year, telling attendees that “it’s a film where the music is an essential element” and that it “isn’t too far removed from the first film” in that sense.

“Arthur Fleck/Joker is weird and aloof and all that stuff, but he has music in him. He has a certain grace. That informed a lot of the dances in the first movie,” he continued. “It didn’t feel like such a big step to do that here. It’s different, but I think it’ll make sense when you see it.”