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Warner Bros Firms ‘Ocean’s 8’ Lineup

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kris.

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The Oceans fan base (if one even exists) isn't filled with nerds who have an allergy towards women not covered in make-up and wearing booty shorts. No one will complain.

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i'm excited to see how this shapes up tbh.
 

Ambient80

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Julia Roberts wasn't even back for Ocean's 13 so I'm not surprised she's not back for this either.

It'd be a neat tie-in though, if this movie was about her being off doing her own thing with her own group during that same time period. The guys were back in Las Vegas, but her and her group were off in another city pulling off their own heist. She was excellent in the first two movies on her own, and the chemistry with her and Clooney was really fun (the scene where they were teaching her how to be Julia Roberts was hysterical, imo. That must have been really fun to shoot!). Now she could do more stuff on her own and continue being her own badass.
 
There's a good Star Wars joke to be made here somewhere.

Mindy Kaling makes me a little worried they're gonna miss the low-key comedic brilliance of the originals in favor of off the wall crazy, but maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion.

You'd have to believe that the writers can put a script together that can have them carry normal conversations on screen. If you don't have that (and good chemistry of course), it's gonna fall flat on its face. You may have women overacting their lines to compensate for something, I know not what. But it won't look good regardless
 

norm9

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Kind of a b-team of actors in my opinion if they were going for all star cast in the same vein as the Oceans movies.
 
Gary Ross, not soderburg. None of the original cast.

I dont care that its all women, i dont. I care that it has none of the reasons i liked the first 3.
 

A-V-B

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I can't wait for the Ocean's 11 "fans" to come out of the woodwork to tell us what a travesty this is and how it will destroy the reputation of the original films and how Hollywood is out of ideas and has just change the sex of the actors, yada yada yada.

I'm just confused that they're remaking this at all.
 
Kind of a b-team of actors in my opinion if they were going for all star cast in the same vein as the Oceans movies.

Only 5 of the original 11 could remotely be considered stars at the time and I'm stretching to include Bernie Mac and Don Cheadle.
 
I really wish instead of Rihanna, they casted a credible black actress like Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, etc... instead of going for the superstar sex symbol pop star, unless of course that's what they were going for.
 

Oersted

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The guy I was responding to who brought it up to begin with?

It's got more potential to deliver than ghostbusters did but I hope they try to actually make a movie with a script then pander to feminist and just take jabs at men. Good luck to them and hope they pull it off.

Oh yeah right, he used the word feminist as negative as you did. Forgive me.

Let me rephrase:

Who uses the word in a non-negative way? Who is not triggered by the idea of feminism?
 

zeelman

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I really wish instead of Rihanna, they casted a credible black actress like Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, etc... instead of going for the superstar sex symbol pop star, unless of course that's what they were going for.

I don't understand how people can look at Rihanna's acting in Battleship and say "get this person in our move." Unless that was just a problem with the movie writing itself.
 
I really wish instead of Rihanna, they casted a credible black actress like Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, etc... instead of going for the superstar sex symbol pop star, unless of course that's what they were going for.

Of course they're going for that.
 
I really wish instead of Rihanna, they casted a credible black actress like Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, etc... instead of going for the superstar sex symbol pop star, unless of course that's what they were going for.

cause money

and recognition.

i told my friends about this movie and they perked up just about rihanna being in there
 
I don't understand how people can look at Rihanna's acting in Battleship and say "get this person in our move." Unless that was just a problem with the movie writing itself.

Yeah, it's hard to tell in one bad movie that was heavily criticized for being poorly written, how good an actor somebody is. For instance, the first time I saw Natalie Portman was in the Star Wars prequels and I thought she was one of the worst actresses. Come to find out, it wasn't her acting; it was the script and direction of those god awful films.
 

-Plasma Reus-

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Stupid casting.
Here I was hoping we'd get Sandra Bullock, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne among others.

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norm9

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Only 5 of the original 11 could remotely be considered stars at the time and I'm stretching to include Bernie Mac and Don Cheadle.

I looked through the cast list and you're right. I guess it's so front loaded it felt like everyone was a star.

I stand by the opinion that this re/boot/make/sequel is missing star power at the top of the bill.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
I watched Casino recently and realized Ocean's 11 completely ripped off Scorsese's style of narration.
 
This was the one that the rumors said would be a spin-off about Danny's sister building a team after getting out of jail, right?
 
Awful cast compared to the Pitt/Damon/Clooney godly triumvirate from Oceans 11. Oh wait that movie had Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, and Don Cheadle as well? No comparison.
 
Apart from the inclusion of Rihanna, gorgeous looks but can't act at all I'm afraid, its a solid cast.

I agree with the posters asking WTH is Julia Roberts though, she'd be a great choice for the leader of the group.
 
I can't wait for the Ocean's 11 "fans" to come out of the woodwork to tell us what a travesty this is and how it will destroy the reputation of the original films and how Hollywood is out of ideas and has just change the sex of the actors, yada yada yada.

Nah this sounds a hell of a lot better than that shit ass ghostbusters. I really fuck with this cast. Despite not knowing what in the fuck an awkwafina is.

Big missed opportunity in not having Jolie in here but she seems mostly retired from acting at this point

Like her or not I thought Lawrence was a shoe in for the Matt Damon part. But Hathaway will work as well.

Hope we get a cloondawg and Pitt cameo in here. Loved the cast chemistry in the oceans trilogy. Especially the bickering between casey affleck and Scott Caan.
 
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