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Todd Phillips (born Todd Philip Bunzl; December 19, 1970) is an American filmmaker. Phillips began his career in 1993 and directed films in the 2000s such as Road Trip, Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and School for Scoundrels. He came to wider prominence in the early 2010s for directing The Hangover film series. In 2019, he co-wrote and directed the psychological thriller film Joker, based on the DC Comics character of the same name, which premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival where it received the top prize, the Golden Lion. Joker went on to earn Phillips three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, with his co-writer Scott Silver, his second, third, and fourth Academy Award nominations after also being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat at the 79th Academy Awards.
The film follows an ensemble cast of characters including Royce a mercenary who appears in an unidentified jungle among other proficient killers. They find that they have been abducted and placed on a planet which acts as a game reserve for two warring tribes of extraterrestrial killers and actively look for a way to return to Earth. The group follows Royce, who Isabelle suspects are a former black operations soldier turned mercenary. In the jungle, they find a strange monument, a plant with a neurotoxic poison that Edwin collects on a scalpel, empty cages, and deadfall traps set by a deceased Green Beret. Reaching the higher ground, they find themselves staring at an alien sky and realize they are not on Earth.
