Todd Phillips Movie Updates

Warner Bros. has tapped The Hangover filmmaker Todd Phillips to co-write and possibly direct an origin movie of the classic Batman villain The Joker.

Warner Bros has acquired the Don Pendleton anti-terrorist operative Mack Bolan novel series and will develop it as a star vehicle for Bradley Cooper to potentially play Bolan.

Rupert Wyatt is in negotiations to direct a remake of the 1974 pic The Gambler for Paramount.

Warner Bros. has won a bidding war for Canadian author Linwood Barclay's novel Trust Your Eyes and set Todd Phillips to direct and produce the thriller with Dan Lin.

Todd Phillips is getting serious about Paramount’s remake of The Gambler.

Warner Bros, Electric City Entertainment and Todd Phillips’ Green Hat Films have set Mark & Jay Duplass to adapt Mule, the Tony D’Souza novel about a young couple’s unexpected entry into the world of “muling” marijuana cross-country to scratch out a living during the recession.

Warner Bros has acquired remake rights to the Danish film and TV series Klovn. The studio has set Danny McBride to write and star in Clown, a film he will produce through his Rough House banner along with Todd Phillips and his Green Hat Films.

After the first three films made at Warner Bros by Todd Phillips’ Green Hat Films banner grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, he has been re-upped to a new first-look deal that keeps him on the lot until the end of 2013.

Negotiating together, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms are asking for $15 million each (against backend) to reprise their roles, and they now are likely to get it.

Todd Phillips' Green Hat Films banner has optioned feature film rights to Guy Lawson's Rolling Stone article Arms and the Dudes, which will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Phillips.

"The Pursuit of Happyness" screenwriter Steven Conrad and "The Hangover" director-producer Todd Phillips are developing a biographical film about John Belushi's life. Warner Bros. recently acquired the rights from Belushi's estate.

"Project X" has got tongues wagging in Hollywood. Warner Bros, Todd Phillips and Joel Silver are mobilizing a raunchy comedy with a $12 million budget, a hard R-rating, under that working title.