Here’s every movie Brad Pitt and George Clooney have worked on together
The A-lister pair co-star in the new action comedy 'Wolfs', just their latest collaboration
by Max Pilley · NMEWolfs, the new action comedy starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, is streaming now, but what other films have the A-list pair appeared in together before?
The film, directed by Jon Watts, who has also helmed the recent Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man trilogy, sees Clooney and Pitt playing two professional fixers who are forced to work together on a job, despite both preferring to work as lone wolves.
Wolfs premiered at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month and saw a limited cinematic release in the US before now landing on Apple TV+, where it is streaming around the world now.
The film also stars Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Richard Kind and the voice of Frances McDormand, and currently sits on a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 72%. The site’s consensus concludes that the two actors give the film “zip, even when it cycles through cliches of the fixer genre, making for a pleasing and slick throwback”.
Apple have already confirmed that a sequel to Wolfs is in the works, with Watts, Pitt and Clooney all set to return. “I absolutely did not write the movie with a sequel in mind,” Watts said. “But it was very fun to make, so I don’t know, I think you let the audience decide if they want to see more”.
In a three-star review of Wolfs, NME wrote: “Despite its superficially dark material, Wolfs isn’t meant to be difficult or challenging, it’s just an enjoyable time hanging out with some chilled, reassuringly handsome gents as they get to the bottom of their not-a-murder mystery. When they eventually do and all the strands are explained, it’s quite hard to follow how things all connect up but it doesn’t really matter. By that point viewers will have gladly accepted the state of things – sometimes a cosy night in watching an easy film is the best remedy for dealing with the world’s woes, as it is in this case.”
Here’s every movie Brad Pitt and George Clooney have worked on together
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Wolfs is just the latest big screen collaboration between the two veteran Hollywood leading men.
They most memorably co-starred in Steven Soderbergh’s trilogy of heist movies, Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007).
Clooney was Danny Ocean, an ex-con who establishes the heist and organises the eclectic team into an elaborate plan. Pitt played Robert ‘Rusty’ Ryan, Danny’s friend and partner in crime in all three films. Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Casey Affleck and Carl Reiner were among the other members of the heist team.
In addition, Clooney and Pitt both appeared in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind in 2002, Clooney’s directorial debut. Written by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich), Pitt only had a cameo role in the film as Bachelor #1, appearing more as a pleasing Easter egg for Ocean’s fans, as Damon also played Bachelor #2.
They did both take on major roles in the Coen Brothers’ 2008 black comedy Burn After Reading. Pitt is one of a pair of dim gym employees, alongside Frances McDormand, who find the lost memoirs of John Malkovich’s CIA analyst. Clooney, meanwhile, plays a womanising US Marshal who is having an affair with Malkovich’s character’s wife.
More recently, they also both appeared in relatively minor roles in the family animation If, John Krasinski’s film about a young girl who begins to see other people’s imaginary friends who have been left behind after their children grew up. Clooney plays Spaceman, an astronaut imaginary friend, and Pitt is Keith, a silent IF.