In Jon Watts’ crime thriller “Wolfs,” George Clooney and Brad Pitt are finally back on screen together. They last worked together 16 years ago in “Burn After Reading” – but it’s not like they don’t want to work together again.

“We were searching,” Clooney told me Wednesday at the premiere of “Wolfs” in Los Angeles. “We were trying to find something we could do.”

They first appeared together on screen 23 years ago in the remake of “Ocean’s 11.” In “Wolfs,” they play two drug addicts, each tasked with the same crime involving a young man (Austin Abrams), drugs, and the Albanian mafia.

“Jon Watts had this idea,” said Pitt. “That was the first draft that never came to fruition. We were both excited. He didn’t tell us what character we should play, but somehow we knew.”

Watts, on the other hand, was worried that Pitt would not go for it because of Clooney, the legendary joker. “I was kidding (Watts),” Clooney recalled. “I told him he would never get (Pitt)… He stayed up all night because I said, ‘You need to work on your pitch a little better.'”