Get ready to say hello to an all - newfangled avatar of Batman ’s most notorious foeman .
Warner Bros. just sink our first facial expression at Todd Philips ’ Joker , an origin story re - imagining how a normal humans , named Arthur Fleck , descends into darkness to be reborn as the nominal villain — this time play by Joaquin Phoenix , andnot Jared Leto , who ’s Joker has anat - best mildly confusingfuture in the DC Universe with the reaching of this picture show .
This is , really , external ofafewpictures , our first tangible look at just what Joker is going for … and even then , we still do n’t roll in the hay much , like how the film ’s take on theWaynefamilywill factor into Arthur ’s downfall , although we do get some brief glimpses , as well as a very momentary expression at Zazie Beetz ’s mysterious character . But this trailer is more about establishing a musical note for Joker than it is really delving into plot of ground — about how an more and more degrading Gotham metropolis warps one valet into one of its most ill-famed villains .
Put on a happy face.Gif: (Warner Bros.)
We ’ll no doubt get a mass more on Joker ( which also starsRobert De Niro , Frances Conroy , Brett Cullen , and Marc Maron ) shortly — after all , it ’s gain theatersin just six months , on October 4 .
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