George Clooney pranked ‘Wolfs’ director Jon Watts by telling him Brad Pitt would "never" agree to be in the movie. The 63-year-old actor revealed he managed to get the filmmaker, 43, to stay up "all night" rewriting the screenplay to the Apple Studios thriller-comedy after he jokingly told Watts he had to "work [on his] pitch a little better" if he wanted to get Pitt on board for the project. The ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ star told Variety: "I messed with [Watts].
I told him he’s never going to get [Pitt] ...
He stayed up all night because I said, ‘You have to work your pitch a little better.’" Despite the prank, Pitt, 60, insisted both he and Clooney "loved" the first draft of the screenplay when they read it. He recalled: "Jon Watts came with this idea, This was the first draft, which never happens.
We both loved it. He didn’t tell us which character we were supposed to play [but] somehow, we knew." The picture follows a professional fixer (Clooney), who is hired to cover up a high-profile crime, before a second cleaner (Pitt) arrives at the scene and forces the two lone wolves to work together.
As the night progresses, chaos ensues for the fixers in a way neither expected. The film was initially going to head straight to Apple TV+, though it was announced in August that it would be getting a limited theatrical run in the U.S.
from 20 September before it hits the streaming platform a week later. While Clooney is glad the movie is coming to the big screen, the actor admitted he wished the picture "was having a wider release". Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the ‘Batman and Robin’ star said: "We’re happy it’s getting released at all.
"Obviously we wish it was having a wider release and we’re trying to figure these things out as we go. This is a revolutionary time in our industry so it’s taken a moment to get through it, but we’ll get through it.".
