Rihanna Slated To Join Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett & More in Ocean’s EightPosted by Wilson Morales
August 9, 2016
Source: Deadline
According to Deadline, Warner Bros has put together a cast that includes Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina (aka Asian-American rapper and actress Nora Lum) for Ocean’s Eight, the female-driven caper spinoff directed by Gary Ross.
The site states that the film is still casting roles, including one more female to complete the title and that they expect to start shooting this October in New York.
The film will be produced by Ocean’s Eleven director Steven Soderbergh, and Ross wrote the script with Olivia Milch. Ross and Soderbergh are longtime informal collaborators, serving as second unit director on each other’s films and as sounding board on scripts and projects. Susan Ekins is executive producer and production senior veep Jesse Ehrman is overseeing the film with President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production Greg Silverman for Warner Bros.
The 1960 film featured five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop.
Jerry Weintraub was the original producer of the original Ocean’s Eleven trilogy whose star-studded cast included George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Casey Affleck, Bernie Mac, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner, Eddie Jemison, Shaobo Qin and Julia Roberts.
Cooney, Soderbergh, and Weintraub produced two more sequels, Ocean’s Twelve in 2004 and Ocean’s Thirteen in 2007. The total gross of all three films came out to $1.1 billion dollars.
Rihanna will next appear in 2017’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, directed by Luc Besson.
