Ocean’s Eleven Prequel Update

Get ready to heist again, because Margot Robbie has confirmed the premise and the setting for the upcoming Ocean’s Eleven prequel film during an appearance at CinemaCon.

“Before Danny Ocean ever stepped foot in Vegas, two masterminds taught him everything he knows — his parents,” Robbie explained as she narrated a compilation of the 2027 Warner Bros. slate during the convention on April 14. “You’ll see them in their prime, and in our new movie, pulling off an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.”

Back in March, the studio was eyeing Bradley Cooper to write, direct, and star in the project after two filmmakers — Meet the Parents director Jay Roach first, then Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung a couple weeks prior to the report about Cooper — left the project at different points in its development.

Cooper is now officially signed onto the project as writer and director, and will star alongside Robbie, presumably playing the parents of the franchise’s original central character, Danny Ocean, who is played by George Clooney in the 2001 original film. Ryan Gosling was originally slated to star alongside Robbie, but he seemingly exited the project in the fall of last year.

Robbie will also be producing the film under her LuckyChap label, and Carrie Solomon is set to write the script. According to Variety, the prequel is looking to start production sometime this year to hit a June 25, 2027 theatrical release date.

Though we’ve now got more details on this new addition to the greater Ocean’s story, it looks as though the information is still pretty limited on the other upcoming Ocean’s movie in the works. Clooney is helming a new sequel film that sees the original cast returning to perform another heist in their older age, but other than that — and the fact that Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt will return to star alongside Clooney — we’ve got nothing. Hopefully, time will tell.

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Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.