Joaquin Phoenix is finally here as the Clown Prince of Crime, everybody, and he is fully terrifying. The first trailer for Todd Phillips’s long-awaited Joker origin film dropped Wednesday morning, and, by God, this thing looks absolutely fantastic.
“My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face,” Phoenix as Joker alter-ego Arthur Fleck says as he slumps around Gotham looking like a sad, grown-up Lord Farquaad. “She told me I had a purpose: to bring laughter and joy to the world.”