This week’s trailers offered twists on familiar genres
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6M23T)
This week saw some fun trailers tapping into heady science fiction, comic book movies, and taboo horror, each with a fun mixed genre twist. Joker: Folie a Deux is a comic book movie about the love affair of The Joker and Harley Quinn that's also a musical, and Apple TV Plus' new Dark Matter series is a kidnapping thriller with an interesting alternate reality twist. Then there's Maxxxine, a horror slasher that looks to also be a whodunit crime mystery.
Joker: Folie a DeuxJoker: Folie a Deux takes a crack at the origin of The Joker and Harley Quinn's romance, which has been explored in some of the best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and lightly featured in 2016's Suicide Squad. This movie is supposed to be a jukebox musical"...