HARLEY QUINN AND THE JOKER Podcast Gets a Trailer and a Premiere Date
Spotify has released the trailer for the upcoming DC and Warner Bros. podcast series Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind. They also announced that the podcast will premiere on January 31st, 2023, with all of the episodes.
Christina Ricci stars in the series as Harley Quinn, which is such great casting! She’s joined by Billy Magnussen, who will be taking on the role of The Joker and Justin Hartley (This Is Us) co-stars as Bruce Wayne/Batman. The podcast tells a new origin story from the perspective of Harley Quinn.
In Harley Quinn and The Joker, when we meet Dr. Harleen Quinzel, “she’s fresh out of grad school, a new psychologist at Arkham Asylum who’s determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off. But her dad is sick, and in need of an expensive, life-saving operation she can’t afford. Pushed to her breaking point, Harleen is tired of playing by the rules. So when she meets ‘Patient J,’ a magnetic inmate able to manipulate everyone but her, Harleen makes a fateful decision: to use her relationship with The Joker to get what she wants, leading both of them down a dangerous path that will change them, Bruce Wayne — and Gotham City — forever.”
The seven-episode series was written and directed by Eli Horowitz (Homecoming), and it’s the second project set in the DC Universe to be released under Spotify’s partnership with DC and Warner Bros. following the hit podcast Batman Unburied.
The rest of the cast includes Amy Sedaris (The Mandalorian, At Home With Amy Sedaris) as Harleen’s Aunt Rose; Andre Royo (Empire, The Spectacular Now) as Arnold Wesker aka The Ventriloquist; Stephen Root (Barry, King of the Hill) as Harleen’s boss, Grunfeld; Fred Melamed (Barry, WandaVision) as Harleen’s co-worker Bob; Mary Holland (Senior Year) as Margaret Pye aka Magpie; and Elias Koteas (Goliath, Chicago PD) as Harleen’s father Nicky Quinzel.
Listen to the trailer below and let us know what you think!