VENICE, Italy – Hollywood stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt came back to the Venice Film Festival on Sunday for the world premiere of “Wolf”.
Below is the conversation with the Hollywood stars that was before they stepped on the red carpet
Most of the conversation was centered around the film, but it is an old-school action thriller by Jon Watts, where they are both lone wolves and exasperated that they’re the only ones hired for the job to clean up a mess involving a district attorney (Amy Ryan). The film will have a limited theatrical release starting Sept 20 before hitting Apple TV on Sept 27 acquired by “Wolves” in a competitive bidding war, beating out both traditional studios and rival streaming services.
Clooney stated that they did have to sacrifice some of their fees in order to ensure that the film did get a theatrical run and that too bad this would not be more than a few hundred theaters wide.
“We would have liked it; we wanted it,” he said, explaining that Brad and he decided to return part of their money because of an article in the New York Times.
However, far from being anti-streaming, Clooney replied that everybody is still struggling with this revolution. Failed labels, there are rough edges and mistakes, but he said that there are many more opportunities for actors now. “Streaming, we need it, our industry needs it,” Clooney said. “They also benefit from having films released, but we have not yet deciphered this well. ”
Producer and Plan B executive Jeremy Kleiner, who has been working with Pitt for over two decades, said that they make movies with the view of their relevance on the shelf and that they’re doing something important.
Pitt added: “I believe that being in the theater and being a fan will always be romantic, but at the same time, that the existence of streamers … is good, and it’s a balance that will eventually adjust.”
Pitt was waiting for a good idea to reunite with Clooney on screen, and the idea of two cleaners who think they’re the best sounded fun—their years of working together made their banter and overlapping dialogue natural.
After receiving the script, they claimed Watts had not indicated which actor would play which role, so Pitt and Clooney called each other and worked it out.
The film’s director, who catapulted from indies to the Tom Holland Spider-Man films, said in a director’s statement that this film is him trying to get back to street level after “seven years of swinging from skyscrapers and jumping through multiverse portals.”
