Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-05 (Thursday)

On Dec 6, 2024 at 5:40:53 PM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 12/6/2024 11:31 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 On 12/6/24 11:11 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
 

 On Dec 6, 2024 at 6:46:04 AM PST, "Nyssa" <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
 wrote:

 anim8rfsk wrote:

   Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

   After an arduous workout, I watched:
   Nothing.
   What did you watch?

   Hey, thanks for asking!
   Nothing
 

 I'm sensing a pattern here...

 
 Well, I did watch something.
 
 I watched WOLFS on the Apple TVs. George Clooney and Brad Pitt play a
 couple
 of aging fixers who end up on the same job and grudgingly are forced
 to work
 together to clean up an accidental death in a hotel suite where the NY
 district attorney (Amy Ryan) was canoodling with a young kid who fell
 off the
 bed, hit his head, and died. Maybe. The movie goes on from there with
 Pitt and
 Clooney unraveling a mystery with the help of the not-quite-dead-yet
 victim.
 
 Pretty good movie. Supposedly doing bang-up numbers on Apple, but
 plans for a
 sequel have been quashed. Rumors are that Pitt and Clooney were pissed
 off
 about the streaming release of it. They were apparently expecting a
 theatrical
 release and they felt it was an insult to be treated as a straight-to-
 video
 level commodity.

 
 That is indeed the story. But I bet they come to some kind of deal over
 the next year to do a sequel - Apple might have to guarantee a
 theatrical release this time. But I bet a sequel ends up happening...

 
The way I heard it, the director was ticked off and said no sequel.

Well, unless directing any and all sequels was in his contract, who cares?
Clooney and Pitt are pretty much essential to any potential sequel but the
director isn't. They can get another director.