Warner showed a new preview of the DC film in Barcelona
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The second trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux for Two is ready, but few people have watched it. After showing the first preview of the film in April at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Warner Bros. showed another trailer in Barcelona, at CineEurope. This is a similar event, where studios present their next releases to European exhibitors. Unlike the CinemaCon trailer (see below), this new preview was not released online simultaneously. It must be a matter of time. Full descriptions of the trailer have not been released online, but Variety called it "explosive."
Joker: Folie à Deux for Two opens on October 3, 2024, and should be a musical starring Phoenix and Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn. Much of the film will take place in Arkham Asylum, the institution that houses several of Gotham's imprisoned supervillains.
Joker: Folie à Deux will be one of the only DC Comics film projects not led by the division's new creative head, James Gunn. It is not part of the shared universe in which other studio projects, such as Superman, the Man of Steel reboot, and The Brave and the Bold, the Batman and Robin film, exist. The production of Joker 2 is in the hands of Michael De Luca and Pam Adby, leaders of Warner Bros. Pictures, and the film will have the Elseworlds label, which indicates its separation from the new DCU.
Zazie Beetz (Atlanta) returns for the sequel, which added Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin), Catherine Keener (Get Out), Harry Lawtey (Industry), and Jacob Lofland (Maze Runner) as new cast members, the latter as a character with ties to Arthur Fleck. Phillips will direct again. Rumors about a new film featuring the character have been circulating Hollywood since the success of the first film, which won Phoenix an Oscar and earned more than a billion at the box office. It arrives exactly five years after the original.
Joker: Folie à Deux will be one of the only DC Comics film projects not led by the division's new creative head, James Gunn. It is not part of the shared universe in which other studio projects, such as Superman, the Man of Steel reboot, and The Brave and the Bold, the Batman and Robin film, exist. The production of Joker 2 is in the hands of Michael De Luca and Pam Adby, leaders of Warner Bros. Pictures, and the film will have the Elseworlds label, which indicates its separation from the new DCU.