Fate has course corrected to provide Christina Ricci the function of Harley Quinn, a casting that makes excellent sense for Spotify and DC Comics’ upcoming podcast Harley Quinn & The Joker. The Addams Family and Yellowjackets icon will carry her sweetly creepy and chaotic power to Harls in a brand new story that can refocus the narrative round her tumultuous relationship with the Joker, performed by Made for Love lead (and made for this) Billy Magnussen.

The podcast is described as, “an audio series that finally tells Harley’s story from her perspective, instead of the one The Joker has told. When listeners meet Harley, she’s Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a gifted psychologist at Arkham Asylum in Gotham City determined to help the patients her colleagues have written off. But her dad is sick, and in need of an expensive life-saving operation Harleen can’t afford.

So when she meets “Patient J,” a novel felony who appears to have a wierd energy over everybody however her, Harleen makes a fateful choice: to make use of her relationship with J to get what she wants, main each of them down a harmful path that can change their lives perpetually.”

The introduced forged additionally options Justin Hartley as Bruce Wayne. Harley and the Joker is directed by Eli Horowitz, who serves as co-writer with Matthew Derby. There’s no anticipated launch date but, however we’ll carry you extra on Harley and the Joker as and once we be taught it.

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