Details of the failure of "Joker: Madness for Two": insane budget, lack of control and an arrogant director

Variety published a large article in which it shared the story of the failure of the film “Joker: Madness for Two.” It describes in detail what happened during filming and why the film turned out to be of terrible quality.

Highlights from the material:

Judging by the Variety material, the sequel was a resounding failure, largely due to the complete lack of production control on the part of Warner Bros. and an arrogant director who preferred not to listen to anyone during the production of the film.

In this situation, Warner Bros. can be called complete losers: the fact is that during the production of "Joker" 2019, the studio was afraid to allocate the required $55 million for the project and chose to split the budget and future income of the film with other investors, believing that the film would make little money. However, the film earned over $1 billion and the studio had to give about half of the income to other companies that invested in the film's production. But when creating the sequel, Warner Bros. decided not to make such a mistake and invested $300 million in it, which in the end will now bring her losses in the amount of $150-200 million due to the film’s terrible box office receipts.

But Todd Phillips himself, after such a deafening failure , most likely nothing good awaits the film industry.