Warner Bros. Now Wants Bradley Cooper To Write, Direct, and Star in the Upcoming Ocean's Eleven Prequel

Heisters, perceive up. The upcoming Ocean’s Eleven prequel whitethorn person recovered its manager and writer successful its imaginable star, Bradley Cooper.

The Hollywood heavyweight, who is possibly champion known for directing and starring successful A Star Is Born other Lady Gaga, has been successful talks to prima successful the movie alongside Margot Robbie, but the speech seems to beryllium turning into much for Cooper. According to Variety, Warner Bros. wants him to instrumentality connected penning and directing duties successful summation to starring the cast.

Two filmmakers person already exited the director’s seat connected this task — Meet the Parents manager Jay Roach first, past Twisters manager Lee Isaac Chung earlier this period — truthful this quality is large for the aboriginal of this film. But Cooper’s engagement could beryllium adjacent much important than his personage brings to the table, though. If helium were to officially motion connected to the film, it would let accumulation to enactment connected docket and get the movie changeable earlier the twelvemonth is out, according to the outlet.

The movie is said to beryllium acceptable successful 1960s Europe and explores what happened anterior to the 2001 movie starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Brad Pitt. Speaking of Clooney, there’s another caller Ocean’s movie successful the works and he’s astatine the bosom of that project, which is expected to research the archetypal radical successful their older years.

“There was thing astir the thought that we’re excessively aged to bash what we utilized to do, but we’re inactive astute capable to cognize however to get distant with something, that conscionable appeals to me,” Clooney revealed of the crippled of his Ocean’s sequel to Variety past year. “They’ve mislaid a step, and they request to find a mode to enactment astir their limitations.”

The archetypal Ocean’s Eleven movie was released successful 1960, and the 2001 movie was a reboot of that project. It got 2 sequels, 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve and 2007’s Ocean’s Thirteen, and a 2018 female-led re-quel Ocean’s Eight.

As for Cooper, helium made his directorial debut with 2018's A Star Is Born, which helium besides wrote. From there, helium went connected to constitute and nonstop 2023's Maestro and 2025's Is This Thing On.

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