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Todd Phillips: The Hangover Part III
How Todd Phillips turned his fascination with heterosexual male relationships into the most successful R-rated comedy franchise of all time.
By Elvis Mitchell • • 28m Listen"Filmmakers are dark people," says director Todd Phillips, and his latest film, The Hangover Part III, does feel a little darker, and a little more dangerous than its predecessors. The debaucherous trilogy concludes with the Wolfpack on their way to deliver Alan (Zach Galifianakis) to rehab. Inevitably, things go awry when they're intercepted by a mob leader (John Goodman) who kidnaps Doug (Justin Bartha) and demands that the remaining three deliver the recently escaped Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong), or face certain death. Phillips talks about what he'll miss most about The Hangover trilogy, plus, how he got John Goodman to join the cast.
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