{"id":39034,"date":"2025-06-02T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39034"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:12:17","slug":"wolfs-2024-written-directed-by-jon-watts-starring-george-clooney-brad-pitt-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39034","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wolfs&#8221; (2024) written &amp; directed by Jon Watts, starring George Clooney &amp; Brad Pitt \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z060225zview_wolfs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wolfs <\/strong><\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jon Watts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jon Watts<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>George Clooney, Brad Pitt<\/strong><strong>, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Kymbali Craig, Linda Carola, Vladimir Sizov, Sammy Horowitz <\/strong>and <strong>Frank Trigg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They&#8217;re not partners. They&#8217;re not friends. They&#8217;re&#8230; Wolfs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Margaret (Ryan), a Manhattan District Attorney gets a hotel room with a young man she just met.\u00a0 When the man unexpectedly dies, Margaret uses a number she was given in case of emergencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon a fixer (Clooney) arrives to clean up the mess.\u00a0 As the fixer prepares to remove the body, another fixer (Pitt) arrives.\u00a0 He says the the hotel owner called him.\u00a0 She was watching via a hidden camera.\u00a0 The two fixers argue about who will do the job.\u00a0 They reluctantly agree to team for the clean-up and disposal of the body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then a cache of drugs is found on the body.\u00a0 The hotel owner convinces the fixers to find and return the drugs to their original owner.\u00a0 Burdened with a dead body and drugs, the fixers learn much to late that nothing is as it seems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple wanted and announced a sequel, but writer\/director Jon Watts refused, even returning advance money he&#8217;d been given.\u00a0 Watts was upset because at the last minute, Apple decided to not give <em>Wolfs<\/em> a theatrical release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Clooney&#8217;s character&#8217;s BMW&#8217;s New York license plate is 3ABM582. Winston Wolf, (played by Harvey Keitel), the fixer in <em>Pulp Fiction,<\/em> drove an Acura NSX with the California license plate is 3ABM582.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also interesting to note we never learn the names of Clooney or Pitt&#8217;s characters.\u00a0 But the title of the movie is <em>Wolfs<\/em> which sounds like a call back to Winston Wolf.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the movie, but expected more with Clooney and Pitt as the leads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Wolfs (2024) <\/strong><\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z060225zview_wolfs2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfs (2024) Director:\u00a0 Jon Watts Screenplay: Jon Watts Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Kymbali Craig, Linda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39035,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions\/39035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}