Joker Teaser Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix as cynical Joker is promising.

The trailer briefly showcases the story of Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who is bullied and traumatized which transforms him to a frightening legend who starts to terrorize the Gotham City.

“The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t,” writes Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), who is soon to be transformed into the iconic Batman villain, Joker.

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By the end of the teaser, set to operatic music, Fleck has transformed into the popular version of Joker, as we have known from his multiple iterations in comic books, films, television series, and video games.

Phillips’s Joker is a standalone movie. It is not a part of the DC Extended Universe that comprises interconnected productions based on DC comic books, starting with the Superman movie, Man of Steel, in 2013.

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Phoenix is the fourth actor to essay Batman’s archenemy after Jack Nicholson in the Tim Burton films, Heath Ledger in The Dark Night, and Jared Leto in Suicide Squad.

The film also stars Robert Di Nero, he plays Murray Franklin, a talk show host. De Niro confirmed that his character is connected to his 1982 film, The King of Comedy, in which he played a failed stand-up comedian obsessed with another comedian (Jerry Lewis).