It’s one of the vital anticipated movies launched in 2024, and now that the trailer has dropped, Joker 2‘s trailer music offers us a snapshot of what to anticipate from Joker: Folie à Deux, when Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) meets Harley Quinn (Girl Gaga). It’s scheduled for launch on October 4, 2024.

It’s the follow-up to Joker, which adopted Fleck, a celebration clown residing in Gotham Metropolis through the early Nineteen Eighties. Fleck’s life is marked by poverty, societal neglect, and a failing of the healthcare system on the subject of help for these experiencing psychological sickness, all of which step by step push him towards a descent into insanity.

As Arthur experiences a collection of rejections and humiliations, he begins to embrace his alter ego, the Joker, as a logo of chaos and rise up in opposition to the society that has discarded him. As he turns into extra entrenched in his delusions and violent impulses, Arthur sparks a city-wide motion of protest and anarchy.

All through the movie, Arthur’s relationship together with his mom, his encounters with the rich Wayne household, and his interactions together with his social employee present context for his unraveling psyche. Finally, Arthur totally embraces his identification because the Joker, culminating in a violent confrontation together with his perceived enemies and the emergence of Batman as his foil.

Whereas not a lot is thought about its sequel, we do know that Harley Quinn, aka Dr. Harleen Quinzel, performs a significant function. Within the comics, her character began as a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum solely to fall in love along with her affected person and turn into his legal associate. The Joker 2 trailer music gives some perception into what she offers Fleck that he’s been so determined for.

What’s the Joker 2 trailer music?

The Joker 2 trailer music is “What The World Wants Now Is Love” written in 1965 and first recorded by pop-rock artist Jackie DeShannon. Apt for the themes we are able to anticipate from the movie, the music promotes the concept of unity amongst individuals and emphasizes the necessity for solidarity and cooperation to deal with the challenges dealing with humanity. It additionally touches upon social points and the necessity for higher understanding and acceptance.

It’s a pleasant reference to Fleck’s emotional speech on Reside With Murray Franklin when he expressed his want to be beloved in a society that has repeatedly been unkind to him. “All people is terrible as of late,” he says. “It’s sufficient to make anybody loopy.” When he talked concerning the males he killed on the subway, the viewers boos. “If it was me dying on the sidewalk, you’d stroll proper over me. … All people simply yells and screams at one another. No one’s civil anymore! No one thinks about what it’s prefer to be the opposite man.”

He continues: “How about one other joke, Murray? Once you cross a mentally unwell loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you f—king deserve,” earlier than pulling out a gun and executing the host, performed by Robert De Niro.

It starkly contrasts the music and visuals performed within the trailer for the primary Joker movie—”Smile” by Jimmy Durante—which inspires listeners to maintain smiling even when dealing with challenges and hardships, which is after all means simpler stated than executed.

Is Joker 2 a musical?

It’s not strictly a musical, however director Todd Phillips advised CinemaCon: “I prefer to say it’s a film the place music is an important factor. To me that doesn’t veer too removed from the primary movie,” he stated. “Arthur [Fleck]’s bizarre and aloof and all these items, however he has music in him. He has a grace to him. That knowledgeable a number of the dancing within the first movie… it didn’t really feel like that large of a step right here. It’s completely different, however I believe it’ll make sense if you see it.”

Talking about selecting Gaga for the function, Phillips stated, “We forged Gaga as a result of she’s magic. I used to be a producer on A Star Is Born … That was the primary time I actually met her and obtained to look at her work. As we have been scripting this script, Scott [Silver], who I wrote it with, stored going again to her.”