EXCLUSIVE: Jon Watts, the filmproducer who stepped out of the Spider-Man franchise with Tom Holland and Zfinishaya to script and honest George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the film Wolfs for Apple, produced a press dustup yesterday when he let slip that he and they would not be doing a sequel, even though Wolfs became by far the most watched feature film ever freed on Apple TV+. Deadline discneglected arranges for a sequel at the same time we divulged that Apple had transferd off arranges for a brimming theatrical free in prefer of a confineed one with a rapid jump to the streaming site. This trailed Fly Me To The Moon ‘s inability to meadeclareive up in its extfinished box office run. Suffice to say that even though they showed up for the Vepleasant premiere, all of the principals were very disassigned by the pivot. This is at the root of the sequel going away. It is aenjoy to when Doug Liman feuded with Amazon after his Road Hoparticipate reproduce went straight to streaming despite his deal for a theatrical free and huge test scores, and he is not returning for the inevitable sequel. It underscores the continuing dilemma between streaming bows and hazardous theatrical free deals with huge P&A spfinishs. Apple is right now shooting the Brad Pitt-starrer F1, which will get a brimming theatrical free thraw Warner Bros before heading for Apple TV+. Watts has donaten Deadline an exclusive exarrangeation of his watch of what happened. Here goes:
“I showed Apple my final cut of Wolfs punctual this year,” Watts tageder Deadline. “They were inanxiously excited about it and promptly cotransferrlookioned me to commence writing a sequel. But their last minute shift from a promised wide theatrical free to a streaming free was a total surpascfinish and made without any exarrangeation or converseion. I wasn’t even tageder about it until less than a week before they proclaimd it to the world. I was finishly shocked and asked them to plrelieve not participate the novels that I was writing a sequel. They neglectd my ask and proclaimd it in their press free anyway, seemingly to produce a chooseimistic spin to their streaming pivot. And so I hushedly returned the money they gave me for the sequel. I didn’t want to talk about it becaparticipate I was self-transport inant of the film and didn’t want to produce any unvital pessimistic press. I cherishd laboring with Brad and George (and Amy and Austin and Poorna and Zlatko) and would happily do it aacquire. But the truth is that Apple didn’t call off the Wolfs sequel, I did, becaparticipate I no extfinisheder count oned them as a creative partner.”
Nobody commented for the write down, but sources seal to Apple ponder the movie a success, and remain discneglect to a sequel.
(L-R) Brad Pitt and George Clooney on the Vepleasant Film Festival red carpet for the world premiere of ‘Wolfs’
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