When Tom Wilkinson passed away at the end of 2023, I hoped it would spur a revival of Michael Clayton, arguably one of Wilkinson’s most underrated performances. It’s such a good movie overall, with fantastic performances by George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, etc. In the movie, Clooney plays a high-level fixer, a problem-solver for hire who comes in and “fixes” things when, say, a CEO kills someone while driving drunk or what have you. I bring this up because writer-director Jon Watts basically borrowed the idea of “Clooney playing a fixer” and turned it into a buddy/odd-couple action-comedy costarring Brad Pitt. As much as I want to believe that Pitt is persona non grata with much of Hollywood, I’m just lying to myself. Hollywood still likes Pitt and they still give him these kinds of leading-man roles. Here’s the first trailer for Wolfs:
I mean… if the Pitt role was recast with someone I actually enjoyed (Clive Owen), I would genuinely be into it. I love an enemies-to-coworkers storyline. I love when shenanigans ensue. I love Amy Ryan. But it’s too late to recast it now. My only hope is that audiences don’t actually want to see two 60-something men doing this cutesy stuff. Also: the younger guy is Austin Abrams, who has been a TV/streaming actor for a while. He looks like he’s doing a lot of the heavy lifting, right??
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