Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga sing and cause chaos in explosive Joker 2 trailer

The Clown Prince of Crime is back with a new companion in the new trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” Todd Phillips’ follow-up to his dark 2019 hit is possibly the strangest musical you’ll see all year, as it follows nihilistic killer Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) as he falls for DC’s most beloved villain, Harley Quinn (Lady Gaga). The first trailer for the film offered glimpses of romance and chaos set to Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now is Love,” while the latest preview offers another look at Gaga’s Harley and a post-shooting Joker.

As Fall Out Boy once taught us, “Folie à Deux” means “a madness divided by two,” and it seems likely that – as in the original “Joker” – elements of this new film will be entirely fictional, perhaps a kind of shared daydream. Harley and Joker meet behind bars, but in Phillips’ vision of Gotham,…