How Todd Phillips Created Joker with Joaquin Phoenix Indie Wire Awards Spotlight

Phillips comedy background helped him to improvise with Phoenix (who s poised for his fourth Oscar nomination) to create the chaos at the center of the movie. Writerdirector Todd Phillips is not someone accustomed to being in the public eye, except for the brief time when hes promoting a movie. Hes been making smash comedies like The Hangover at Warner Bros. for some 15 years. After the long rampup for his tenth film, Joker, when he convinced two successive Warner Bros. management teams to greenlig