George Clooney had some bad news to announce at the first press conference for Apple’s hotly anticipated action comedy Wolves at the Venice Film Festival.
The Hollywood actor, sitting next to his co-star Brad Pitt, announced that the film’s director, Jon Watts, will miss the film’s world premiere in Italy on Sunday night because he has contracted Covid.
“He traveled all the way here and then got COVID,” Clooney said with a resigned expression on his face and a shake of his head.
Watt was also absent from the press conference, leaving it to Pitt and Clooney to speak on behalf of the film.
Pitt and Clooney play the roles of professional fixers hired to cover up the same high-profile crime in the action comedy. The two “loners” are forced to work together – and soon find that their night is spiraling out of control in ways neither of them expected.
Watts is best known as the director of the recent Spider Man Trilogy for Sony, with the last film, No way homebreaking all box office records on its way to a worldwide box office success of $1.9 billion.
WolvesProduced by Clooney’s Smokehouse and Pitt’s Plan B, the film also stars Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, Richard Kind and Zlatko Burić. Watts and McGunigle produced, alongside Clooney, Grant Heslov, Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. Michael Beugg is executive produced.
Just days before the two film stars landed in Venice, it was announced that Watts had signed a deal with Apple to write a screenplay and direct. Wolves Sequel. It is unclear whether Clooney and Pitt have already signed on for the sequel.
