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. The parts were written specifically for them: two of Hollywood’s leading-est men, who, individually, have long inhabited the role of the cool, calm, and collected guy in various twist-filled thrillers. “[They’ve] both played that guy. It’s like two Michael Claytons,” says Watts.
Because the Hollywood hype machine around this dude is gross. Hollywood wants us to pretend like this never happened. He has never apologized and the divorce has dragged out over eight years. There are plenty of other people they could hire. Casting him, and then even stating the movie was built around him, makes it about both Pitt and the movie.
Soooo, without any evidence that’s given in your link, without any statements pointing towards even an indictment by any of the agencies involved, we’re supposed to ignore the presumption of innocence and take the opinion you have?
Seriously, moral panics are boring. Like it or not, nobody is or even should be barred from working without at least being given a court date on a criminal charge.
Even then, it’s dubious to pretend that a movie full of other actors and crew are somehow also to be blamed for one person’s misdeeds.
Worse, it’s only because he’s famous that anyone cares. If some gaffer or PA or gopher had the same accusation, with the same lack of evidence, nobody would care at all. Don’t see any articles about camera operators, electrician, set carpenters, or anything else, and I can almost guarantee that in any cast and crew of a decently budgeted movie, there’s plenty of people that have done something unpleasant to other human beings.
It’s ridiculous at this point.