Joker Trailer – Joaquin Phoenix went crazy in the 80s in Gotham City

The first trailer of Joker – DC's independent film that will serve as a story to the l '; Origin for Batman's Great Rival – is here, with Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role and directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover Trilogy), Joker takes place in the 1980s and explains how a failed comedian does not hold any account of the company and turns to a crime life in Gotham City. Joker's first trailer portrays this premise, thus showing that he is slowly driven crazy from the world around him. Phoenix lost a lot of weight because of the role and its transformation is also clearly visible in the trailer.

"My mother always tells me to smile and put a happy face," Arthur Fleck (Phoenix) in Joker's new trailer: "She told me I had a purpose. Bringing laughter and joy to the world. Meanwhile, we see pictures of Arthur taking care of his mother, Penny (Frances Conroy), and being bullied by Gotham City scoundrels who badail him.

"Is it just me or does it get more and more crazy?" Arthur wonders, as Jimmy Durante's "Smile" begins to play in the background. Arthur then goes to the Arkham State Hospital, laughs in a manic and messy manner during an improvised concert, starts playing with a modified version of the clown makeup and s & # 39; He strives to smile, then loses him completely in the subway one night. 19659005] "I had a habit of thinking that my life was a tragedy," says Arthur in voiceover. "But now, I realize that it's a comedy."

Joker's first trailer also features several other characters, including Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2) as an interest lover of Arthur and a single mother Sophie Dumond, Brett Cullen (The Dark Knight Rises) as the father of Billionaire Bruce Wayne, Thomas Wayne, candidate for the mayor of Gotham, Brian Henry Tyree (Atlanta) as a nurse from Arkham Hospital, Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) as a member of the Board of Trustees. Police Officer and Robert De Niro as a talk show host named Murray Franklin, whose role is a tribute to the 1982 movie The King of Comedy in which he plays the lead role.

Joker is scheduled to release on October 4, 2019 in cinemas around the world.

The first official poster of Joker
Photo credit: Warner Bros.

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