Wolfs Is The Perfect Progression Of Brad Pitt & George Clooney
The first trailer for the upcoming film Wolfs starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney just arrived on YouTube, and fans are already going nuts over the new project. The two leading men have worked together several times before, and famously maintain an off-screen friendship, making this film the perfect combination of star-power and chemistry.
The premise of Wolfs is not just the perfect progression of Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s respective careers, but also the perfect progression of Hollywood blockbusters as a whole.
If everything goes according to plan, this could serve as a new model to replace the single-actor vehicle, with a myriad of other competing thespians touting double-billed features.
If you’re thinking to yourself “Shouldn’t it be called Wolves instead of Wolfs?” you would be absolutely correct. The film’s title is itself a gag, referencing the premise of the movie. Per the trailer, Wolfs centers on Brad Pitt and George Clooney as a pair of fixers, each akin to The Wolf from Pulp Fiction, as they are forced to work together, in stark contrast to their usual solo missions.
This could also be read as a meta-joke about the existence of Wolfs as a project, as both Brad Pitt and George Clooney are leading men in their own right, and aren’t generally accustomed to splitting the top-billed position. If everything goes according to plan, this could serve as a new model to replace the single-actor vehicle, with a myriad of other competing thespians touting double-billed features. Imagine a movie where Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro have to split the spotlight, or Jenna Ortega and Aubrey Plaza, or even Bill Hader and John Mulaney.
Wolfs is set to premiere in theaters everywhere on September 20.
While two-handers aren’t necessarily a new concept, it seems like Wolfs is making the most of its premise, as the trailer has already attracted over a million views at the time of this writing, after being online for under 24 hours.
The film also serves as something of a reunion piece for Brad Pitt and George Clooney, as the duo previously worked on iconic films such as Burn After Reading and the Oceans trilogy. Technically the pair already reunited earlier this year with voice-over roles in John Krasinski’s If movie, though they weren’t front-and-center characters.
These days, films rarely get audiences in seats off the name of a single A-list star like they used to. Instead, most blockbuster movies of the past decade or so have had to rely on massive ensemble casts, or flashy gimmicks, in order to sell tickets. In the case of Wolfs, the trailer combines the star appeal of Brad Pitt and George Clooney, while banking on fans’ semi-parasocial relationships with the beloved leading men.
It seems like Wolfs is making the most of its premise, as the trailer has already attracted over a million views at the time of this writing, after being online for under 24 hours.
Wolfs is set to premiere in theaters everywhere on September 20. Given that Sony Pictures has several months to hype the release of the Brad Pitt and George Clooney vehicle, it stands to reason that we’ll be hearing a lot more about it before it eventually hits the box office. If the trailer is anything to go off of, it seems like the movie will be a major hit, since there are already tons of comments on the original YouTube video from fans leaping with excitement at the thought of catching the upcoming film.
