Ocean's prequel to be helmed by Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung
The 46-year-old filmmaker - who recently helmed Twisters - is attached to direct a prequel to the 2001 crime flick Ocean's Eleven for Warner Bros., Deadline has said.
While the project is said to be in early development and plot details are being kept under wraps, the screenplay is being written by A Family Affair scribe Carrie Solomon.
The Ocean's prequel - which will be based on characters created by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell - will be produced by Warner Bros. and Margot Robbie under her LuckyChap Entertainment banner.
The actress was previously said to have been also attached to star in the Ocean's prequel alongside her Barbie castmate Ryan Gosling, though current reports indicate no one has officially been cast in the movie yet.
While story details are unknown, it was reported the Ocean's prequel would be set in 1960's Europe and would feature Robbie and Gosling as the parents of Danny (George Clooney) and Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock).
Austin Powers filmmaker Jay Roach had initially been attached to direct the movie, but Chung's involvement in the project indicates that is no longer the case.
The first Ocean's 11 released in 1960, and starred five members of the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop - as they tried to pull off the ultimate heist in Las Vegas.
In 2001, the franchise was rebooted by director Steven Soderbergh, and starred George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt.
Ocean's Eleven follows the charismatic thief Danny Ocean (Clooney) as he assembles a team of specialists to pull off an audacious heist: robbing three of Las Vegas's biggest casinos in a single night.
As the elaborate plan unfolds, slick deception and personal stakes collide in a stylish game of risk and reward.
The film was followed by the sequels Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007.
Then in 2018, the series was continued with the all-female Ocean's 8, which starred Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter.
In Ocean's 8, Danny Ocean's sister Debbie (Bullock) recruits a team of skilled women to execute a daring heist at New York's Met Gala. Their target: a $150 million Cartier necklace, and the perfect plan to walk away with it undetected.
As well as the Ocean's Eleven prequel, another sequel is potentially also in the works, which would reportedly bring back Clooney's Danny Ocean, Pitt's Rusty Ryan and several other stars from the original team.
In 2023, Clooney teased the project and told Uproxx: 'We have a really good script for another Ocean's now, so we may end up doing another one. It's actually a great script.'
When asked whether the possible project was intended to become Ocean's Fourteen, the Wolfs star said: 'Well, I don't want to call it that … I mean, the idea is kind of like Going in Style.'
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