Ocean's 13

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No Ocean's 14?
Source: Clooney Studio

Clooney Studio received several reports from the Edinburgh International Film Festival where Ocean's 13 director Steven Soderbergh mentioned that this was the last installment in the franchise. Here are a few quotes:

Ocean's 13 will be the last one. Especially George wanted "to go out strong", and Ocean's 12 was too complicated. Ocean's 13 is a comedy, and this time Al Pacino is a great bad guy in fact "this guy's a monster!" said Steven Soderbergh yesterday to a maybe 1000-1200 people strong crowd in his interview with Shane Danielsen, The Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival.

David Holmes is back to compose the original music - "He's so good - so gifted" Steven Soderbergh.

Warner Bros. will release the third film on June 8, 2007.

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Source: MTV

"This one is going to be the one we should have made last time." That's what Casey Affleck said about "Ocean's Thirteen," the currently filming sequel that once again puts the actor alongside co-conspirators George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. "It's going to be a lot better [than 'Ocean's Twelve']," Affleck assured. "It's back in Las Vegas, for one thing, and it's more going back to the kind of 'Ocean's Eleven' vibe, which is just a little bit more fun in Vegas — the right place for these stories and these characters." The 32-year-old Affleck is eager to once again spar with onscreen brother Scott Caan, and he's thrilled to be using two languages this time around. "I get to speak a little Spanish in this one, which I'm pretty excited about," Affleck revealed. "I actually lived in Mexico for a little while when I was a kid, so I speak Spanish, and when I got the script and looked through it and it was all in Spanish, I thought, 'Is this a joke?' But it wasn't." This time around, the Ocean gang is joined by Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino (as a dangerous casino owner), with the flick due in theaters in June. "You never know if something's going to be good or not," Affleck grinned, perhaps recalling some unenthusiastic "Twelve" reviews. "But it seems to me like this one's going to be great."

[Pubrick]

"This one is going to be the one we should have made last time." That's what Casey Affleck said about "Ocean's Thirteen,"

geez, so does everyone involved unanimously regret ocean's 12? i mean, does soderbergh even like it at least?

[The Perineum Falcon]

Well, I like it, and that's really all that counts.

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"This one is going to be the one we should have made last time." That's what Casey Affleck said about "Ocean's Thirteen,"

geez, so does everyone involved unanimously regret ocean's 12? i mean, does soderbergh even like it at least?

if he's got any sense in his damn head, he does (regret it).

[A Matter Of Chance]

Ocean's 12 was great. Ocean's 13 will probably be disgustingly and achingly desperate for the Ocean's 11 'cool,' and will thusly fall flat on its face.

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Back to crime scene in 'Ocean's'
Source: Los Angeles Times

Poor Brad had to abandon the quiet solitude of Namibia (and the not-so-quiet company of Angelina, Shiloh, Maddox and Zahara) so he could rejoin his extended family of millionaire actor friends in the Valley to shoot "Ocean's Thirteen," yet another installment of the aren't-we-clever heist franchise. (Not to worry: Word is that the studio has provided the hardworking cast with a full-scale re-creation of Lake Como on the Warner Bros. lot to ensure that the ensemble retained the "magic.") The January draft of the screenplay, by the "Rounders" team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien, has Rusty, Danny, Linus and the gang re-forming in Vegas to avenge the flamboyant Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), who's been rooked by a Steve Wynn-type master of the universe named Willie Banks (Al Pacino). Their revenge caper? To engineer a nine-minute window during which every single gambler at Banks' casino wins.

But the moment the franchise had Julia Roberts playing Julia Roberts, wasn't it clear that Soderbergh and Co. were down to the felt? Only Julia had the sense to pick up her chips and head for the high-minded, Oscar-saturated safety of "Charlie Wilson's War," which stars Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman and is directed by Mike Nichols.

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"This one is going to be the one we should have made last time." That's what Casey Affleck said about "Ocean's Thirteen,"

geez, so does everyone involved unanimously regret ocean's 12? i mean, does soderbergh even like it at least?

if he's got any sense in his damn head, he does (regret like it).

fixed.

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Soderbergh and Clooney on Ocean's 13
Source: ComingSoon

This year, there were a lot of high profile threequels (AKA sequels to sequels) but one of the big ones for next summer is likely to be Ocean's 13, the second sequel to director Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake of Ocean's 11. He's reunited the entire cast including his long-time leading man George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon et al for one last fling. At the junket for Soderbergh's next film The Good German, Soderbergh and Clooney talked about what to expect from next summer's threequel.

"'13' happened because we thought we could do it better than '12' and we didn't want to go out getting socked in the chin on one," Clooney admitted when asked why he decided to return to reprise the role of Danny Ocean. "We were both like, 'We both know how to do this.' And we found a really good reason to do it, which is revenge, which I think is just such a good motivator after you've had these guys make a lot of money. What are you going to do? 'Let's make some more money'? This was just about getting somebody who wasn't one of our guys. I always love films like that. That made sense to us and that seemed like a good reason to do it. There doesn't seem to be any other reason to come back. And it's back to '11' in terms of spending more time with the guys."

When asked whether he was taking any risks on the third movie, Soderbergh responded, somewhat facetiously, that they were very risky, though he looked at the third movie a bit more poignantly. "I'm really happy with it, but it was kind of sad near the end of it to go, 'Well, this is the last time I'm going to see these people in a room. I really like them all and they really like each other, and there was a very strong sense that we were really lucky that these movies came about and we were able to do them and this was it. At the end of it, there was a real sense of passage and wondering for me whether I'll ever find another commercial movie to make. But also just those people, I won't be hanging out with those people anymore."

When another person suggested that Ocean's 13 didn't have to be the last one, Soderbergh disagreed, "Yeah, it does."

Clooney wasn't so closed-minded about ever doing another one, saying with his usual charm, "Listen, Rocky 17, who knows? Maybe ten years from now I need a job again, I'll take it, but right now, we don't plan on it."

Ocean's 13 is scheduled to come out on June 8, 2007, but before then, you can catch Clooney in Soderbergh's next film The Good German, out in limited release on December 15.

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[©brad]

i said goddamn those are some big foreheads! 

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Man, you gotta spoiler warning that shit... now the "sitting in the airport (or bus or train station)" scene is ruined for me.

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[diggler]

look who just learned photoshop!