Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s reluctant team-up comedy Wolfs is so hotly anticipated, AppleTV+ is growing a sequel earlier than the film has even come out.
The streaming service introduced on Wednesday that they’ve tapped Wolfs writer-director Jon Watts to pen a follow-up.
“With George and Brad’s remarkable and engaging chemistry under Jon Watts’ extraordinary direction, Wolfs blends all the great elements of comedy, action and drama into a hugely entertaining movie that will leave audiences ready for what’s next,” Matt Dentler, head of options for Apple Unique Movies, stated in a press launch on Wednesday.
“We’re excited to see fans embrace the movie as we start working with Jon on the sequel,” Dentler added.
It has been greater than 15 years since Clooney and Pitt final starred on the massive display collectively in 2008’s Burn After Studying — after, in fact, they each starred within the Ocean‘s franchise, the final of which dropped in 2007 with Ocean’s 13 — and followers are thrilling to see the two A-listers reunite for an additional comedy crime caper.
Chatting with ET’s Cassie DiLaura on the 4 Seasons Lodge in Los Angeles, Clooney made a playful jab at his longtime buddy when the topic of “dynamic duos” got here up, and who had the thought to convey them collectively.
“Pretty boy, Pitt,” quipped Clooney. “Yeah, he needed work. He’s an up and comer.”
Clooney and Pitt put their cash the place their mouth is — whereas additionally placing on their producer hats — once they revealed to Deadline that they provided to take an enormous pay lower in trade for a theatrical launch, along with streaming.
“Yeah. Brad and I. It was an exciting time because it got to be one of those weird bidding wars which happen every once in a while, and it ended up being pretty extreme, and Apple came in with a really big number for Brad and I, and we said, ‘We’d like to take less, as long as we can guarantee that we can have a theatrical release.’ And they said, ‘Great!’ So, I do think that there’s a way that we can all co-exist,” he advised the outlet in January 2022.
In Wolfs, Clooney stars as Jack, an expert fixer who’s employed to cowl up a high-profile crime in a resort. Nevertheless, shortly after arriving, one other skilled fixer, Nick (Pitt) arrives on the scene, and claims to have been employed for the job.
The 2 “lone wolves” who every favor to work alone are compelled to staff up to determine what is going on on, and shortly issues spiral uncontrolled as they study they have been arrange and must resolve why.
Wolfs hits theaters in restricted launch on Sept. 20, then debuts on Apple TV+ on Sept. 27.
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