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Monica Barbaro is preparing to join the battle with… Ocean XI Prequel.
The actress is in talks for a role in Warner Bros.’ An untitled film will be directed by Bradley Cooper. Hollywood Reporter And he confirmed. Cooper and Margot Robbie will star in the film, alongside Wagner Moura as the villain.
Cooper is set to direct the film from a script he is writing after Cary Solomon penned an earlier draft. Plot details for the project, which is based on characters created by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell, have not been shared.
Barbaro is set to star opposite Callum Turner in the romantic comedy Just one night Which will be released by Universal in August. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Joan Baez in the film Completely anonymous After going out in Top Gun: Maverick.
Warner Bros. The franchise was launched in 2001 with Steven Soderbergh Ocean XI which remade the studio’s 1960 heist film Ocean 11Starring Frank Sinatra and other Rat Pack members. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Matt Damon were among the stars of Soderbergh’s film trilogy that concluded in 2007. Ocean XIII.
In 2018, Warner Bros. released The eighth oceana spinoff from director Gary Ross of Soderbergh’s trilogy that starred Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Anne Hathaway. Since the film’s release in 2001, the franchise has grossed over $1.4 billion at the global box office.
Lee Isaac Chung was previously attached to direct the prequel before exiting amicably amid creative differences.
Paying tribute to LuckyChap, the new film counts Cooper as a producer. Executive producing is Chung, Josie McNamara, Bronte Payne, Bobby Wilhelm, Jay Roach, Michelle Graham, Ashley J. Sandberg, Gary Ross and Olivia Milch.
Delivery time He was the first to report on Barbaro’s casting.
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