Ocean's Thirteen
01-08-06, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by The Bus
I don't think the "brilliant plan" made Ocean's 11 endearing. The cast and style did. The plot was certainly very well put-together but if the movie starred Ben Affleck, Jessica Alba and Robert Redford as directed by Tony Scott, I don't think it would've been quite as good. (To be fair, had that same cast & crew been in Ocean's Twelve, it would've been horrendous).
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01-10-06, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by GuessWho
The fun of 11 (and the whole point, I thought) was that you got to see every little aspect of a single caper... inception, planning, recruitment, rehearsal, and the caper itself.
12 skipped all that and in some cases didn't even show the caper itself. They took away the entire point of the first film.
12 skipped all that and in some cases didn't even show the caper itself. They took away the entire point of the first film.
03-27-06, 06:40 PM
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Ocean's 13 - Summer 2007
Mar 27, 7:24 PM (ET)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Now that George Clooney's an Academy Award winner, he and his crew are returning to their thieving ways.
Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon will star in "Ocean's 13," the third flick in their franchise about a gang of lovable crooks, distributor Warner Bros. announced Monday.
A supporting-actor Oscar winner for the oil-industry thriller "Syriana," Clooney will reprise his role as leader of the pack Danny Ocean, with the group pulling off a new heist in Las Vegas.
Clooney's producing partner Steven Soderbergh, who made the 2001 hit "Ocean's Eleven" and its 2004 sequel "Ocean's Twelve," will direct again.
Julia Roberts, Clooney's love interest in the first two movies, and "Ocean's Twelve" co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones will not be back for the third movie, according to Warner Bros.
"It was a script issue. We didn't have a place to really use talent like theirs, two big stars like that," said Jerry Weintraub, the franchise's producer. "They're very good friends of ours, and neither Soderbergh nor I would prevail on them to come back and do nothing just to do it."
Weintraub said if the filmmakers hit on a good idea to include the actresses, there was a chance Roberts and Zeta-Jones could return.
The studio expects the rest of the cast, including Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould, will return. Joining the cast will be Ellen Barkin.
Production is scheduled to start in July, with "Ocean's 13" due in theaters in summer 2007.
-- Eh, it'll probably make a shitload of money for them all... I'll wait 'til cable.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Now that George Clooney's an Academy Award winner, he and his crew are returning to their thieving ways.
Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon will star in "Ocean's 13," the third flick in their franchise about a gang of lovable crooks, distributor Warner Bros. announced Monday.
A supporting-actor Oscar winner for the oil-industry thriller "Syriana," Clooney will reprise his role as leader of the pack Danny Ocean, with the group pulling off a new heist in Las Vegas.
Clooney's producing partner Steven Soderbergh, who made the 2001 hit "Ocean's Eleven" and its 2004 sequel "Ocean's Twelve," will direct again.
Julia Roberts, Clooney's love interest in the first two movies, and "Ocean's Twelve" co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones will not be back for the third movie, according to Warner Bros.
"It was a script issue. We didn't have a place to really use talent like theirs, two big stars like that," said Jerry Weintraub, the franchise's producer. "They're very good friends of ours, and neither Soderbergh nor I would prevail on them to come back and do nothing just to do it."
Weintraub said if the filmmakers hit on a good idea to include the actresses, there was a chance Roberts and Zeta-Jones could return.
The studio expects the rest of the cast, including Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould, will return. Joining the cast will be Ellen Barkin.
Production is scheduled to start in July, with "Ocean's 13" due in theaters in summer 2007.
-- Eh, it'll probably make a shitload of money for them all... I'll wait 'til cable.
03-27-06, 06:58 PM
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No Julia Roberts? I'm sooo there!
03-27-06, 07:12 PM
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Originally Posted by mikewendt
Mar 27, 7:24 PM (ET)
Julia Roberts, Clooney's love interest in the first two movies, and "Ocean's Twelve" co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones will not be back for the third movie, according to Warner Bros.
"It was a script issue. We didn't have a place to really use talent like theirs, two big stars like that," said Jerry Weintraub, the franchise's producer. "They're very good friends of ours, and neither Soderbergh nor I would prevail on them to come back and do nothing just to do it."
Julia Roberts, Clooney's love interest in the first two movies, and "Ocean's Twelve" co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones will not be back for the third movie, according to Warner Bros.
"It was a script issue. We didn't have a place to really use talent like theirs, two big stars like that," said Jerry Weintraub, the franchise's producer. "They're very good friends of ours, and neither Soderbergh nor I would prevail on them to come back and do nothing just to do it."
I think the real reason is purely budgetary.
03-27-06, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by starseed1981
BORING
03-27-06, 08:57 PM
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Ocean's 12 felt like one big inside joke, that I wasn't a part of. Blah.
03-27-06, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Dean Kousoulas
Ocean's 12 felt like one big inside joke, that I wasn't a part of. Blah.
03-27-06, 09:28 PM
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I'd see it on video.
03-28-06, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by jaeufraser
After watching Ocean's 12 a second time I've actually grown quite fond of it. This cast does have chemistry in spades.
03-28-06, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Dean Kousoulas
Ocean's 12 felt like one big inside joke, that I wasn't a part of. Blah.
03-28-06, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Dean Kousoulas
Ocean's 12 felt like one big inside joke, that I wasn't a part of. Blah.