It has only been three months since filmmaker signed on the dotted line for a sequel to his crime caper Wolfs with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, but the film is no longer moving forward at Apple.
Watts himself confirmed the news in an interview with Collider. While promoting his new Disney+ Star Wars series Skeleton Crew, he was asked about his coming plans, responding “I don’t know what I’m directing next, and I don’t think there’s going to be a Wolfs sequel.”
In an interview with Deadline, he said that he showed Apple the final cut of Wolfs, following which they commissioned him to start writing a sequel, but he revealed that they shifted it from a theatrical to streaming release “without any explanation or discussion.” “I wasn’t even told about it until less than a week before they announced it to the world. I was completely shocked and asked them to please not include the news that I was writing a sequel. They ignored my request and announced it in their press release anyway, seemingly to create a positive spin to their streaming pivot. And so I quietly returned the money they gave me for the sequel,” he added, noting that he no longer trusted them as a creative partner.
Wolfs was slated to release theatrically with Sony as their distributor, but moved to a limited one-week theatrical release on September 20 and was later streamed on Apple a week later on September 27. In Wolfs, Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high profile crime. But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up and the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control in ways that neither one of them
