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Why Director Jon Watts Turned His Back on Marvel to Make ‘Wolfs’
The filmmaker behind one of the highest-grossing movies of all time walked away from the superhero genre and landed two of Hollywood’s biggest stars in the process for his Venice-premiering film.
In December 2021, Jon Watts found himself standing in the back of the Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on the opening night of his last film, Spider-Man: No Way Home. The entry was one of the first major studio theatrical releases following the pandemic shutdown, and the audience was standing, screaming, crying and generally carrying on in a way that, even for the first showing of a fan-favorite superhero movie, was a spectacle all to itself.
“That was such a specific moment in time, and the reaction to that movie was just so unbelievable,” remembers Watts. It was at this point that the director came to the realization: “It’s never going to be like this, ever again.”
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Clooney and Brad Pitt’s ‘Wolfs’ Gets Sequel as Apple Pivots Theatrical Release to One-Week Limited Rollout
Apple Original Films is shaking up its release strategy as it doubles down on the upcoming action-comedy “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
Apple has made a deal with director Jon Watts to helm, write and produce a sequel for the A-list stars.
The film, which will premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, was originally slated for a wide release before hitting Apple TV+. Now, it’s set for a one-week limited theatrical release on Sept. 20, followed by an Apple TV+ debut on Sept. 27.
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Wolfs Was Written Specifically For George Clooney And Brad Pitt: ‘It’s Like Two Michael Claytons’
Fresh from wrapping up his MCU Spider-Man trilogy to thunderous effect in No Way Home, filmmaker Jon Watts has ploughed his success into two major new projects. Before too long, we’ll see the Star Wars series he’s helped devise, the kids-lost-in-space adventure series Skeleton Crew. But away from the franchise world, Watts has used his cache to make an original crime movie – with two of Hollywood’s biggest A-listers starring side by side. Get ready for Wolfs, in which two lone-wolf crime scene fixers realise they’ve both been hired to take on the same clean-up job. What happens, then, when Jack (aka George Clooney) and Nick (aka Brad Pitt) are forced to work in close proximity, while finding themselves increasingly out of their depth?
That’s the question that drove Watts to write his screenplay, from which he also directs. “I just wanted to know what it would be like if two of those guys met,” he tells Empire in the Joker: Folie À Deux issue. “Would they kill each other? Or would they become best friends?” The partnership of Jack and Nick is absolutely intended to play on audiences’ existing associations with Clooney and Pitt.
Read more. Check out the latest Empire (UK) issue out now.
