Harley Quinn is getting to tell her own story, and it’s coming in the form of a podcast. Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind is being produced for Spotify and will feature Harley’s origin story from her own perspective and will not be filtered through the Joker, reports Variety.
The podcast will star Christina Ricci, who currently stars as the unhinged Misty Quigley in Yellowjackets, as Harley Quinn. The audio drama will co-star Billy Magnussen as The Joker and Justin Hartley as Bruce Wayne. It is being written and directed by Eli Horowitz of Homecoming fame.
Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind will follow Harley Quinn when she is still Dr. Harleen Quinzel, a psychologist at Arkham Asylum in Gotham City. She is determined to help patients “her colleagues have written off.” The show will follow her meeting of The Joker, AKA Patient J, a criminal who holds power over everyone but her. With her father sick and in need of an expensive treatment, Harley will use The Joker to get what she needs to save him.
The series will be the second in line under Spotify’s agreement with Warner Bros. and DC. The first podcast, Batman Unburied, hit the number one spot in more than a dozen markets when it debuted in May.
Season 3 of the animated Harley Quinn series comes out July 28. It follows the titular character as she tries her hand at making it in the Gotham City underworld without The Joker by her side. We’ve also gotten to see Margot Robbie as Harley in Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey, the Harley-centric spin-off.
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