Joker: Folie à Deux Trailer Breakdown
32The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux is here, featuring the return of Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck/Joker and introducing Lady Gaga's version of Harley Quinn.
The highly anticipated first trailer dropped on Tuesday after Warner Bros.' CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. It's a decent look at Folie à Deux, giving us our first glimpse at what it may tackle.
A large part of the focus, of course, is on Arthur, but the trailer - and WB's own tagline, "he's not alone anymore" - makes a point to highlight how this'll be Harley's story, too. It seems to confirm a massive shift in Harley Quinn's origin story as well, showing her as a patient in Arkham Asylum rather than as a The trailer almost immediately hints at the musical aspect of the sequel too, even if director Todd Phillips clarified at the panel that it's not a full musical, but rather that music is an "essential element." A voiceover that sounds to be Phoenix's says in the trailer, "we use music to make us whole, to balance the fractures within ourselves."
After that, we hear Gaga's Harley for the first time: "I'm nobody," she laments. "I haven't done anything in my life like you have." We can also see Harley and Arthur locking eyes in the asylum, as Harley mimes shooting herself.
It then shows a look at Arthur and Harley's relationship, as the trailer sees them engaged in a dance on a rooftop. We see the trailer veer from what could be romantic delusions - the two intertwined, bathed in moody lighting - to what looks to be a grimmer reality, with Arthur in a police car in one shot and Harley ascending courtroom steps, in full costume, in another.psychiatrist. Long gone, it seems, are the days of Dr. Harleen Quinzel. The trailer tracks with previous marketing of the film, most of which focuses on Arthur and Harley in a romantic framing. The poster and first looks at Joker: Folie à Deux have all either seen them in dance, or otherwise closely intertwined with each other.