By David Hudson
The eagerly-awaited teaser trailer for the Joker sequel—Joker: Folie à Deux—hit the internet yesterday evening. It has quickly racked up 5 million views on YouTube and plenty more on social media platforms.
Directed by Todd Phillips and again starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, it’s a sequel to the mega-successful, Oscar-winning Joker movie from 2019. It will be released this fall, exactly five years after the first film.
The sequel will also co-star Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn. Her character meets the Joker when he is sent to Arkham Asylum and falls under his spell.
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Unsurprisingly, Gaga fans were thrilled to finally see the singer and actress in the movie’s first official trailer. It’s clear she joins Joker in his life of crime, with one scene showing her wiping the blood from a dead man across her lips to create a gory smile.
Harley Quinn putting on a smile with the blood of the dead man behind her. That’s cinema!
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lady gaga is honestly one of the only artist who is genuinely good at EVERYTHING !!!! from singing, to dancing, to acting, she does everything 10/10 !!!!😭😭😭
lady gaga did not only eat this role… she DEVOURED
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predicting gaga winning best actress at the oscars pic.twitter.com/mEqPDBAULV
She made history again, she delivered acting, you can see every feeling in every cut of every scene, literally she is immense in Harley Quinn's madness, LADY GAGA YOU ARE ON ANOTHER LEVEL pic.twitter.com/TOixlXbNkX
A few people also had fun with the trailer. Gaga recently received some backlash for advertising a specific brand of migraine relief tablet on her Instagram. This led to a few jokes at her expense.
Not Lady Gaga writing this on Joker's face pic.twitter.com/w3xnG92nKg
However, not everyone appeared thrilled with the trailer. It appears that some people have realized for the first time that the movie will contain musical elements. This is not new information and is something Phillips and others have previously mentioned.
It’s not yet clear how the music will be woven into the plot. The trailer includes the song “What The World Needs Now Is Love”.
According to Variety, the movie will feature covers of 15 “very well-known songs”’ such as the Judy Garland classic “That’s Entertainment”, plus two new songs. These will likely come from Gaga. She won an Oscar for co-writing “Shallow” from A Star Is Born.
A handful of movie fans were unimpressed.
Why on earth is Joker 2 a musical?! Like the first movie was not a musical. Out of nowhere the whole city just thought to break out in song and dance?! That makes zero sense!
Me after finding out Joker 2 will be a musical pic.twitter.com/3lIywdTxkG
The Joker 2 being a musical ruined it
To the people who say Joker 2 being a "musical" is out of no where and makes no sense… literally go back to the first movie and you'll find multiple scenes were Arthur just dances to himself.
Why does adding singing to that suddenly make it too much for you?? pic.twitter.com/j0j0tJl0T3
We’re pleased to report that the number of people ga-ga over the new trailer vastly outnumbered those unhappy.
Joker: Folie à Deux will hit screens in the US on October, 4. Expect further trailers and a whole heap of hype in the coming months.
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