Todd Phillips made a deal with Warner Bros. that will bring the director nearly $100 million for helming Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker.
After the wildly successful run of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, Todd Phillips will reportedly earn close to $100 million for bringing the iconic villain to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter recently broke the news that director Todd Phillips is in talks to follow up Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker with a sequel further exploring the villain, presumably after the events of the recent DC origin story. Todd Phillips will also be creating new visions of classic villain origin stories for DC and Warner Bros.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Todd Phillips’ original agreement when directing Joker saw him forgo his agreed salary for a piece of the gross profit of the film. The director was clearly confident that Joker would be incredibly successful – and his move is paying off well. Todd Phillips will reportedly earn up to $100 million for the origin story. The deal is similar to one he had one directing The Hangover for Warner Bros. which earnt $467.5 million worldwide.
Also: JOKER director Todd Phillips is pulling down a mind-blowing payday for the first outing. Read on. https://t.co/BVfZN7iT0b via @thr
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Here is the official synopsis for Joker:
Director Todd Phillips’ Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.
Directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Glenn Fleshler, Douglas Hodge, Marc Maron, Josh Pais, and Shea Whigham.
Joker is now playing in theater. Stay tuned for more updates on the Joker sequel, Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips.
Source: THR
