Earlier today, the new trailer for Joker 2 , a.k.a.
the officially-titled Joker: Folie à Deux , dropped, and while the main draw was obviously all the new footage featuring Joaquin Phoenix ’s Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga ’s Harley Quinn to enjoy, there was also a big reveal if you had the captions turned on. Some dialogue early on in the preview is attributed to Harvey Dent, a longtime player in the Batman mythos who’s better known as the villain Two-Face. Now I can’t help but wonder if on top of this upcoming DC movie showing Harley’s origin story, will it also show the creation of Gotham City’s duality-obsessed antagonist? While it hasn’t been officially confirmed who’s playing Harvey Dent in Joker 2 , there’s chatter online that Industry’s Harry Lawtey was cast in the role.
Regardless of whether it’s him or another member of the Joker 2 cast , what we can say for certain is that Harvey is involved in the events of this 2024 movie , and by the below dialogue, it sounds like he’ll be the Gotham district attorney prosecuting Arthur Fleck for his crimes in 2019’s Joker : They believe Arthur Fleck to be some kind of martyr. Well, he's not. He's a monster.
That sounds a lot like an opening statement in a courtroom, doesn’t it? Of course, Harvey Dent and the position of district attorney go hand in hand, so if the character was involved in Joker: Folie à Deux some other way, that would be more shocking. However, if we assume this is the case (pun sli.