Ryan Reynolds' $190M Comedy Already Beat Brad Pitt & George Clooney's 16-Year Reunion Movie To The Punch This Year

Brad Pitt and George Clooney returned to the big screen together in Apple TV+'s Wolfs, but it surprisingly wasn't their first major movie reunion of the year. Pitt and Clooney are two of the world's most widely recognized movie stars and a pair of actors who've shared a multi-decade relationship as great friends and collaborators. Brad Pitt and George Clooney's movie collaborations go back to Ocean's Eleven in 2001, where they joined forces to successfully remake a classic heist movie, arguably bringing even more charisma to the Ocean's franchise than the Rat Pack did in 1960.

Throughout the 2000s, Pitt and Clooney collaborated on three more feature films, including two Ocean's sequels and the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading, proving their success together could be replicated. Yet, the star duo followed their success by going the next 16 years without doing a movie together before leading the cast of Wolfs in 2024. In the film, which is currently available on streaming, Pitt and Clooney star as two fixers sent on the same job, forcing them to put aside their differences to work together.

Brad Pitt & George Clooney Technically Already Reunited In 2024's IF Before Wolfs

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While Wolfs was the more major reunion for Brad Pitt and George Clooney, it was beaten to the punch as their first official reunion by the movie IF. The Ryan Reynolds-led, John Krasinski-directed, family-friendly comedy movie was released in May 2024 but was met with mixed reviews. The IF cast is rounded out by dozens of iconic celebrity actors doing voice-over cameos, from Matt Damon to Awkwafina to, of course, George Clooney and, technically, Brad Pitt.

The movie star cameos in IF are all actors playing various imaginary friend characters, meaning they appear on-screen as animated figures. This includes George Clooney's cameo as Spaceman. Brad Pitt's character, Kieth, never appears on-screen or has any spoken lines because the character itself is invisible and is used as a gag throughout the movie. Characters will trip and get angry at Kieth, who never speaks in response. Still, Brad Pitt is listed in the credits as part of the joke, building on his previous appearance as the invisible character Vanisher in Deadpool 2.

Brad Pitt didn't do any work for IF; he's just credited in the film as a joke.

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Even though Brad Pitt's role in IF is a joke, it kind of ties in with the meta, self-deprecating humor that he and Clooney partake in for Wolfs, which essentially makes fun of the two stars for aging and being washed up. Pitt and Clooney have been known for an off-screen relationship filled with pranks and humor for decades, and carrying that into their careers at this stage is a ton of fun. Even though Wolfs wasn't their best movie together, it proves that Pitt and Clooney can make any situation entertaining, and the audience deserves more.