Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s sequel to $200,000,000 ‘mediocre’ film cancelled after being slammed

Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s movie Wolfs is reportedly nary longer getting a sequel.

Three months ago, earlier the transgression movie premiered astatine the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Apple TV Plus are said to person made a woody with manager Jon Watts for a followup.

However, Jon has present said that it is nary longer happening.

‘I don’t cognize what I’m directing adjacent and I don’t deliberation there’s going to beryllium a Wolfs sequel,’ helium shared successful an interrogation with Collider.

The archetypal movie was a immense concern with the accumulation allegedly costing a whopping $200million (£158million), which would person made it 1 of the astir costly TV movies of each time.

It was archetypal reported successful August by The Hollywood Reporter that a sequel would beryllium coming, with Deadline saying that Brad, 60, and George, 63, would beryllium reprising their roles.

Viewers were capable to ticker Wolfs astatine the extremity of September, and the movie got mixed reviews.

The crippled saw Brad and George arsenic 2 nonrecreational fixers that are begrudgingly made to signifier a squad aft being hired for the aforesaid cover-up job. They were joined successful the formed by Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams and Poorna Jagannathan.

Wolfs presently boasts a critics people of 69% connected Rotten Tomatoes but many slated it arsenic ‘staggeringly banal’ and ‘a small amended than mediocre’ connected the platform. Viewer Courtney Howard brutally called it ‘meh’ connected X. However, others had a antithetic acquisition and called it a ‘genuine delight’ and ‘beautiful’.

The caller quality of its evident cancellation person erstwhile again highlighted the disagreement by radical who loved it and those who wouldn’t recommend.

‘Well that’s disappointing! I enjoyed the archetypal movie, and was looking guardant to seeing wherever Watts and co. would instrumentality those 2 lone wolfs,’ wrote Movie Moustache connected X.

Meanwhile relationship CantUnseeMovie claimed ‘absolutely nary 1 is amazed by this’.

Despite the sometimes savage reviews, Apple TV Plus said the movie was the astir viewed diagnostic successful the platform’s history. 

Apple Original Films’ caput of features Matt Dentler said: ‘Audiences person chosen successful droves to make Wolfs part of their weekend, making the movie a planetary blockbuster.

‘We ever see Apple TV Plus to beryllium the location for the world’s astir talented artists to make and present their champion work, and it’s breathtaking to spot audiences clasp that truthful overwhelmingly.’

It was initially going to person a wide theatrical release before debuting connected Apple TV Plus. George honestly admitted it was a disappointment it lone fixed a constricted one-week theatrical release.

‘Yeah, we would person liked that. We wanted it. That’s wherefore Brad and I gave immoderate of our wage backmost to bash that,’ helium told reporters astatine the Wolfs property league successful Venice, including Metro.

It was reported that the brace were paid ‘more than $35million’ (£26million) each to enactment successful and co-produce Wolfs, but he poured acold h2o connected the figures.

‘It’s millions and millions and millions of dollars little than what was reported,’ helium said.

‘I americium lone saying that due to the fact that I deliberation it’s atrocious for our manufacture if that’s what radical deliberation is the modular bearer for salaries,’ helium added, noting that it ‘will marque it intolerable to win’.

Brad, who starred alongside George successful Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve implicit 20 years ago, added: ‘I deliberation we’ll ever beryllium romanticist astir the theatrical experience. At the aforesaid time, I emotion the beingness of the streamers due to the fact that we get to spot much story, we get to spot much talent. It gets much eyes.’

Metro contacted Apple TV Plus for comment.

Wolfs is disposable to ticker connected Apple TV Plus

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