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How Wolfs director staged a Brad Pitt, George Clooney movie reunion

Jon Watts is trading in spiders for animals of a different kind.

The director of the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man trilogy wrote and directed the action-comedy Wolfs (in select theaters Sep. 20; on Apple TV+ Sep. 27), about two fixers — played by George Clooney and Brad Pitt — who are brought in to help clean up a big crime involving Margaret (Amy Ryan), a New York D.A., late one night. The problem is, they don’t work with each other, nor did they expect the other to be there, but circumstances now dictate that these two lone wolves work together, like it or not, to get the job done.

The story plays out over the course of one night — one very cold winter night in NYC. “That was so stupid of me,” Watts tells Entertainment Weekly, laughing about the predicament he created. “I wrote the movie, I could have written it anywhere. I could have written it at any time of year. I chose New York at night.”

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