Actors Brad Pitt and George Clooney. , Photo Credit: AP

wolves 2action comedy sequel Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Jon Watts’ film starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney has been cancelled. confirmation comes after collider published an interview with Watts on Friday morning, according to Diversity,

are promoting their new Disney+ star wars series skeleton team, The filmmaker was asked about his upcoming plans, responding, “I don’t know what I’m going to direct next, and I don’t think any movies are going to be made.” wolves Sequel.” Earlier in August, Apple confirmed it was halting the wide theatrical release of the film, for which it had partnered with Sony as a distributor.

instead, wolves It moved to a one-week limited theatrical run on September 20, followed by its debut on streamer Apple TV+ a week later on September 27. The sudden new strategy implemented just a month before release raised some eyebrows, as did Clooney’s. Said in 2023, “Brad and I made a deal to do that movie where we paid the money back to make sure we got a theatrical release.”

But changes to the limited run also came with the news that Apple had signed Jon Watts to direct, write and produce. wolves Clooney and Pitt are expected to return in the sequel to play a pair of fixers operating in the criminal underworld.

In September, Brad Pitt and George Clooney lavishly attended the film’s Venice premiere. Speaking to People at the premiere, Clooney opened up about working with his longtime friend Pitt. “There is nothing good in it. It’s all a disaster,” Clooney joked. He added, “It’s fun to work with people you know really well.”

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Apart from discussing his friendship, Clooney also said something controversial. new York Times The article claimed that she and Pitt were paid more than US$35 million for their roles in The Wolves. ,[It was] An interesting article and whatever his source was for our salaries, they are millions and millions of dollars less than the reported amount. And I’m only saying that because I think it’s bad for our industry if people think that’s the standard bearer for salaries…it’ll make it impossible to make movies. wolves It also stars Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams and Poorna Jagannathan.