Joaquin Phoenix’s return as the enigmatic Joker in the highly anticipated sequel. Joker 2 : Folie à Deux, has sent the internet into a frenzy with its recent teaser release. However, amidst the excitement, Desi Twitter has uncovered an unexpected twist. Drawing parallels between the dark world of Gotham and the glitzy realm of Bollywood.
This week saw some fun trailers tapping into heady science fiction, comic book movies, and taboo horror. Each with a fun mixed genre twist. Joker: Folie à Deux is a comic book movie about. The love affair of The Joker and Harley Quinn that’s also a musical. And Apple TV Plus’ new Dark Matter series is a kidnapping thriller with. An interesting alternate reality twist. Then there’s Maxxxine, a horror slasher. That looks to also be a whodunit crime mystery.
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Joker: Folie à Deux takes a crack at the origin of The Joker and Harley Quinn’s romance. Which has been explored in some of the best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and lightly featured in 2016’s Suicide Squad. This movie is supposed to be a “jukebox musical” — you know. Like Moulin Rouge, except it’s about a murderous pair of lovers with unconventional ideas about jokes. It will be out on October 4th.
The teaser unveiled a captivating scene featuring Joker, portrayed by Phoenix, and his love interest Harley Quinn, played by none other than the iconic Lady Gaga, dancing under the moonlight. While fans marveled at the mesmerizing sequence, Desi Twitter couldn’t help but notice a striking resemblance to a similar moonlit dance from the Bollywood classic, Om Shanti Om.
The trailer numbers are great news for Warner Bros. Beating “Barbie” is of note, as that film went on to earn $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office for the studio and was last year’s highest-grossing movie. The original “Joker” surpassed $1 billion in 2019; the sequel is aiming for even higher total given this initial interest and the addition of superstar Lady Gaga to the cast.
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Among the trailers for the year’s studio tentpoles, “Joker: Folie à Deux” trounce. The debut of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (100 million views) and bested Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” (157 million views to become the biggest debut for a Disney animated film). The “Joker” trailer was below Marvel’s “Deadpool and Wolverine.” Which set a record earlier this year. As the biggest trailer launch of all time with 365 million views. However, the Marvel tentpole launched on. Super Bowl Sunday and its viewership numbers factored in the telecast. The “Joker: Folie à Deux” trailer launch was purely digital.
Little is known about the actual plot for “Joker: Folie à Deux” other than it is reportedly a jukebox musical set around Arkham Asylum. Phoenix is back in the title role. Which earned him an Oscar for best actor. Gaga stars as Harley Quinn. The supporting cast includes Zazie Beetz. Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Jacob Lofland, Steve Coogan, Ken Leung and Harry Lawtey.
The sequel marks Phoenix’s return as Arthur Fleck. Joker 2 The central character who transitions from an aspiring stand-up comedian to a villain. With Lady Gaga portraying Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a psychiatrist.
A user KTA termed the trailer, “raw”, and noted, “As for the “musical” they keep saying. It’s gonna be, as long as it’s not literally singing scenes and that type of bs all through the movie it should be good. I like the musical score they used for a lot of these scenes to help tell the story.”
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Joker: Folie à Deux is scheduled to hit theatres on October 4th. Shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux) is an uncommon condition characterized by the share. Belief of a delusion among two or more individuals in a close relationship.
Joker set a new benchmark at the box office upon its 2019 release becoming. The first R-rated film to surpass $1 billion in earnings.
It received the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and garnered 11 Oscar nominations, winning two.
