Who would've ever thought that Warner Bros. Discovery "begged" the director of a handful of iconic comedy films like Road Trip and The Hangover, among others, to lead DC Studios?
Apparently, before handing over the reins to James Gunn and Peter Safran, the newly-merged Hollywood studio wanted to bring in Todd Phillips to lead the struggling cinematic universe. It isn't clear how deep the negotiations went, but The New York Post is claiming that Warner Bros. Discovery begged the Joker director to be the head of DC Studios. In the same post, a different source reports that "the whole town turned the job down", which is in line with earlier reports after Dan Lin turned down the job.
It'd be interesting to see what a Phillips-led DC Universe would look like if he'd accepted the offer. Would he have fired Henry Cavill? What kind of movies would we see? Would he be in favor of a more cohesive cinematic universe like James Gunn, who wants to bring video games into the mix? Or would Phillips prefer standalone continuities? Would Phillips merge Joker and Matt Reeves' Batman into the same universe? There are a lot of questions that will never be answered now that this is all a moot point.
