IGN can exclusively reveal new details for the upcoming Spotify audio series Harley Quinn and the Joker: Sound Mind - the second project to be released as part of Spotify's deal with DC and Warner Bros. following Batman Unburied - including its release date, trailer, key art, and casting details.
All episodes of Harley Quinn and the Joker: Sound Mind will be available to all Spotify listeners on January 31, 2023, and the series will star Yellowjackets and The Addams Family's Christina Ricci as Dr. Harleen Quinzel aka Harley Quinn and No Time to Die's Billy Magnussen as The Joker.
If you'd like a preview of the upcoming series, you can check out the full audio trailer for Harley Quinn and the Joker: Sound Mind right here and the show's page right here.
The series is written and directed Homecoming's Eli Horowitz, and it also stars This Is Us' Justin Hartley as Bruce Wayne, The Mandalorian's Amy Sedaris as Harleen's Aunt Rose, The Wire's Andre Royo as Arnold Wesker aka The Ventriloquist, Barry's Stephen Root as Harleen's boss Grunfeld, WandaVision's Fred Melamed as Harleen's co-worker Bob, Star Trek: Lower Decks' Mary Holland as Margaret Pye aka Magpie, and The Thin Red Line's Elias Koteas as Harleen's father Nicky Quinzel.
"We’ve heard Harley Quinn’s origin story -- the one where she was manipulated into being The Joker’s doting, mad lover," the official description reads. "But what if there’s more to it? What if there’s a Gotham City where Harley let The Joker believe she loved him, to get what she needed?
"When we meet Dr. Harleen Quinzel, she’s fresh out of grad school, a new psychologist at Arkham Asylum, 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."
Harley Quinn and the Joker: Sound Mind has been a very anticipated series following Batman Unburied's rise to the top of the Spotify chars when it was released in 2022. Its first two episodes were released on May 3, 2022, and it surpassed The Joe Rogan Experience, MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories, Crime Junkie, and Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain.
If you need more Harley Quinn in your life, be sure to check out our review of the third season of HBO Max's Harley Quinn animated series, the news of that series' upcoming 'very problematic Valentine's Day special," and why it won our pick for the best aniamted TV series of 2022.
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