A new trailer for Joker sequel Folie à Deux has dropped and subtly revealed that a major Batman villain will be in the movie.
The newJoker 2trailer is currently making waves online, featuringJoaquin Phoenix singing,Arthur Fleck and Harley Quinn appearing in a varietyshow, and yet more nods to The King of Comedy.
But if you stick the subtitles on said trailer, there’s a huge reveal early in proceedings, concerning one of thebigBatman characters.
The trailer begins with Fleck sitting in the back of a police car, as we hear a character called Paddy Meyers state “Two years ago, the name Arthur Fleck hit Gotham like a hurricane.”
A reporter then calls what’s happening “The trial of the century.” Another voice states “They believe Arthur Fleck to be some kind of martyr, but he’s not. He’s a monster.”
With the subtitles on, that voice is revealed to belong to… Harvey Dent.
In the Batman comics, Dent is Gotham City’s District Attorney, who following an accident involving acid, goes mad, becomes heavily scarred, and turns into super-villain Two-Face.
There’s no word yet regarding who plays Dent in Joker: Folie à Deux, but the character has a long and storied history in theprevious Batman movies.
Billy Dee Williams plays Harvey Dent in the 1989 Batman, though we never get to see his Two-Face. Instead, Tommy Lee Jones plays a pretty broad version of both versions of the character in 1995’sBatman Forever.
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But the most celebrated incarnation is Aaron Eckhart’s take in 2008’s The Dark Knight, which manages to be both terrifying and heartbreaking. This version of Two-Face doesn’t make it into sequel The Dark Knight Rises, but casts a shadow over that movie thanks to the ‘Dent Act,’ which is designed to eradicate organized crime.
As for the Joker 2’s Harvey Dent, we don’t yet know if it’s simply a voice cameo, if he’s the film’s villain, or if Harvey’s being set up for a Two-Face turn in Part 3. But we’ll let you know as soon as any news on that front breaks.
Chris Tilly is the TV & Movies Editor at Dexerto. He has a BA in English Literature, an MA in Newspaper Journalism, and over the last 20 years, he’s worked for the likes of Time Out, IGN, and Fandom. Chris loves Star Wars, Marvel, DC, sci-fi, and especially horror, while he knows maybe too much about Alan Partridge. You can email him here: chris.tilly@dexerto.com.
