Apple Studios Lands George Clooney, Brad Pitt Thriller – The Hollywood Reporter

Apple Unique Movies has received the Hollywood bidding warfare for Jon Watts’ thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

Watts will write, direct and produce the thriller. Clooney and Pitt will star and produce by way of their respective manufacturing labels, Smokehouse Photos and Plan B Leisure. The challenge will middle on two lone wolf fixers assigned to the identical job.

Clooney and Pitt final starred onscreen collectively within the Ocean’s 11 motion pictures and have been additionally within the Coen Bros. film Burn After Studying.

Final week, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the movie was the topic of a bid frenzy, with Apple vying with the likes of Sony, Netflix and Lionsgate for rights to the bundle from the Spider-Man: Homecoming filmmaker. Amazon, Annapurna, Common, MGM, and Warner Bros. have been additionally believed to be within the combine.

Securing Watts’ coveted function is one other coup for Apple Unique Movies. The fledgling studio, with the deepest of deep pockets, has an ever-expanding lineup of unique options together with Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation starring and produced by Will Smith; the extremely wanted movie Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro; Spirited, a musical rendition of Charles Dickens’ traditional vacation story starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer; and Raymond and Ray, a brand new function movie starring Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke.

Clooney, Pitt and Watts are repped by CAA. Clooney is moreover repped by Lichter Grossman, Pitt by Brillstein Leisure Companions and Goodman Genow, and Watts by Ziffren Brittenham.