Now Phillips and Phoenix are back for the much-anticipated sequel, Joker: Folie À Deux. This time, they’re bringing along multi-talented singer-songwriter and fellow Academy Award winner Lady Gaga for the ride. The result appears to be a highly taught and incredibly creative musical-crime opus that will completely shake up audiences.

Watch the all-new trailer for Joker: Folie À Deux below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

Joker: Folie À Deux finds Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) institutionalised at Arkham Asylum, and awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love (Lady Gaga), but also finds the music that’s always been inside him.

This new trailer for Joker: Folie À Deux is utterly sensational in its production and follows on from the pulse-pounding teaser trailer, and it sets the stage for something completely unexpected. Having caused a large-scale riot and being implicated in multiple murders, Arthur Fleck, better known as Joker, awaits the ‘trial of the century’, and unexpectedly falls in love with a musical therapist of Arkham Asylum, Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Lady Gaga), who is carrying her own sense of derangement, and their crazy love is sure to spell disaster for Gotham City.

The new trailer does not provide any sense of narrative direction or specific plot points. Instead, it focuses on mood and tone and captures the anarchy that swells up around Arthur and Lee as their insane love for each other boils over. Phillips himself brings an incredible level of grandeur to the project, and the prevailing narrative has an almost ‘OJ Simpson trial meets Singing in the Rain‘ quality.

What is clear is that Phoenix, the Academy Award winner, has completely folded back into the skin of Arthur Fleck. With his gaunt frame and the gleam of madness behind the eyes, he’s ready to make a complete show out of his trial and ignite a new fire through Gotham. Audiences will also be given a special treat as Phoenix will engage in both song and dance as his already fragile psyche cracks even further, and this new narrative device will lead to a real surprise for audiences.

Sharing in Arthur Fleck’s madness this time around in Joker: Folie À Deux is Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (Lady Gaga), a music therapist who is drawn to Arthur while he is incarcerated at Arkham Asylum and who stokes his madness and anarchy… and the fire that spreads. Gaga truly revels in the glee and insanity that follows Arthur, and her dark intentions are slowly revealed as the trailer progresses. While Phillips has been coy on the characterisation of Gaga’s Lee, and her purpose in the narrative, he has described her as being an almost ‘Charles Manson-esque figure’ to Arthur… and this can certainly only more chaos awaits in Joker: Folie À Deux.

Joker: Folie À Deux appears to be an utter spectacle. With its bold vision, unique handling of a classic villain’s mythology, and sensational song and dance numbers, it will be incredibly memorable to watch when it arrives in cinemas on October 3.

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Watch the first trailer for Joker below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

In 1981, a failed stand-up comedian named Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) disregarded by the society turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City.

While audiences are no strangers to superhero cinema, they’ve never seen anything like this before. Dark, brooding and filled with psychological malice, Joker appear to be a hard-edged psychological thriller that will take audiences into the black edges of the mind with it’s tale of a man who slowly begins to lose his mind with terrifying results.

Joker is a completely new step forward for Phillips, and you can forget about any type of Hangover style comedy here. With it’s grimy palette and edgy style, Joker is bearing influences from the likes of the work of Martin Scorsese and Darren Aronofsky, and this trailer will absolutely have you on edge. This is clearly filmmaking that goes right for your throat, and it’s going to be a completely wild ride.

While Phillips may be at the command of this madness train, it’s Joaquin Phoenix who takes audiences on this journey of insanity as Arthur Fleck and his transformation into the savage and unhinged Fleck is brilliant! Gaunt, pale, unkemp and completely out of control, Phoenix is definitely going to unnerve audiences here…and his laugh is tinged with creepiness which will send a shiver down your spine.

Juxtaposing themes of joy and comedy with horror and mania, Joker is going to be one seriously intense watch, and is set to re-interpret both The Joker and the Batman mythos in a whole new light. And I’ve also got to praise the trailer’s use of Nat King Cole’s ‘Smile’ which only adds to the mounting psychological tension and makes for a perfect fit here with Joker.

Get ready for something completely bold, original and new when the world’s greatest supervillain arrives in cinemas on October 3.

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Camera test (w/ sound). Joker.

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Phillips again took to his Instagram to highlight these early costume tests which show Phoenix transforming from Arthur into this freakish clown character. The footage is chilling and I can already sense the serial killer vibe that Phillips is going for here with this character.

While these are only early camera tests and are not indicative of the characters final transformation I wouldn’t be surprised if this early make-up later morphs into the characters final Joker look.

While we still have no further plot points on where this narrative will go, the vibe I’m getting is that of a grungy Taxi Driver inspired cinema experience and there definitely won’t be any happy endings here.

Joker will be unleashed on audiences on October 3, 2019 and it’s going to be a mad old time.

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