‘Joker 2’ trailer: Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga guide twisted, musical fever dream

Warner Bros. on Tuesday debuted the 1st trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga.

The studio screened the preview during a presentation celebrating its approaching slate of films at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and produced the footage on the net soon thereafter.

The roughly 2-minute teaser sees Phoenix’s Joker and Gaga’s Harley Quinn escape from a psychological asylum and embark on an intensive, twisted romance to the tune of Tom Jones and Sammy Davis Jr.’s “What the Earth Requires Now Is Appreciate.”

“We use audio to make us complete,” Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck, also regarded as Joker, remarks in the trailer, “to harmony the fractures within ourselves.”

“I’m no person,” Gaga’s Harleen Francis Quinzel says. “I have not carried out nearly anything with my life like you have.”

Contrary to 2019’s “Joker” — a box-business smash that gained two Oscars, like guide actor — the highly anticipated sequel to the Batman villain origin tale has been billed as a musical. However you would not always conclude that from the trailer, which capabilities no singing — continuing a current pattern in which leisure firms appear to be reluctant to market motion picture musicals as motion picture musicals (see also: “Wonka” and “Mean Girls”).

“Joker” and “Joker: Folie à Deux” director Todd Phillips explained the approaching film during the Warner Bros. presentation as “a movie where by new music is an important ingredient.”

“To me, that does not really veer far too far from the to start with movie,” Phillips claimed.

“Arthur’s odd and aloof and distant … but he has a new music and he has a grace to him. And very frankly, that informed a good deal of the dancing in the very first movie. That knowledgeable Hildur’s [Guðnadóttir] beautiful rating in the very first movie. So it didn’t feel like that big of a move. What we did below, it’s unique, but I think it’ll make perception after you see it.”

Phillips also thanked theater entrepreneurs during the celebration for not wavering from screening “Joker” in 2019 irrespective of “these strange warnings” about the comic e-book adaptation potentially inspiring authentic-daily life violence at the time.

“It was incredible that the exhibitors did not budge, and they did not flinch,” Phillips mentioned. “The film came out and did massive company, and that attitude was a big cause for our massive success. … It’s a very little late now, but thank you.”

Other Warner Bros. titles teased all through Tuesday’s presentation bundled “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” “Mickey 17” and “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” The following “Joker” movie opens in theaters Oct. 4.