Ocean's Eleven Prequel Update

Get acceptable to heist again, due to the fact that Margot Robbie has confirmed the premise and the mounting for the upcoming Ocean’s Eleven prequel movie during an quality astatine CinemaCon.

“Before Danny Ocean ever stepped ft successful Vegas, 2 masterminds taught him everything helium knows — his parents,” Robbie explained arsenic she narrated a compilation of the 2027 Warner Bros. slate during the normal connected April 14. “You’ll spot them successful their prime, and successful our caller movie, pulling disconnected an epic heist astatine the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.”

Back successful March, the workplace was eyeing Bradley Cooper to write, direct, and prima successful the task aft 2 filmmakers — Meet the Parents manager Jay Roach first, past Twisters manager Lee Isaac Chung a mates weeks anterior to the study astir Cooper — near the task astatine antithetic points successful its development.

Cooper is present officially signed onto the task arsenic writer and director, and volition prima alongside Robbie, presumably playing the parents of the franchise’s archetypal cardinal character, Danny Ocean, who is played by George Clooney successful the 2001 archetypal film. Ryan Gosling was primitively slated to prima alongside Robbie, but helium seemingly exited the task successful the autumn of past year.

Robbie volition besides beryllium producing the movie nether her LuckyChap label, and Carrie Solomon is acceptable to constitute the script. According to Variety, the prequel is looking to commencement accumulation sometime this twelvemonth to deed a June 25, 2027 theatrical merchandise date.

Though we’ve present got much details connected this caller summation to the greater Ocean’s story, it looks arsenic though the accusation is inactive beauteous constricted connected the other upcoming Ocean’s movie successful the works. Clooney is helming a caller sequel movie that sees the archetypal formed returning to execute different heist successful their older age, but different than that — and the information that Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt volition instrumentality to prima alongside Clooney — we’ve got nothing. Hopefully, clip volition tell.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.