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&34;It's just setting a start date for us,&34; Clooney says of the highly anticipated followup to 2007's &34;Ocean's Thirteen.&34; George Clooney says original

"It's just setting a start date for us," Clooney says of the highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's "Ocean's Thirteen."

George Clooney says original Ocean's cast will 'probably' start filming in 2026 after teasing 'a great script'

"It's just setting a start date for us," Clooney says of the highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's "Ocean's Thirteen."

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Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 'Ocean's Thirteen'. Credit:

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George Clooney and the gang are heading back to Las Vegas!

Two years after the actor and director teased that the next film in the *Ocean's Eleven* franchise already has a "great script" in the works, Clooney is saying that everything is in line for the (still unconfirmed) cast to start filming *next year*.

"We just got the budget approved at Warner Bros. and we're trying to set up," Clooney recently confirmed to E! News in a clip posted to TikTok. "It's just scheduling, so it's just setting a start date for us. Probably start in about nine or 10 months, shooting."

And when asked if he is excited to reunite with his onscreen right-hand man Brad Pitt again, Clooney answered that he was, as well as costars Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and Julia Roberts, who plays Danny Ocean's wife, Tess.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney in 'Ocean's Eleven'.

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"I had dinner last night with Julia. They're all still really dear friends so, the chance to work together would be fun," he added.

Reps for Warner Bros. didn't immediately respond when contacted by ** for confirmation.**

The news is definitely good for fans of the franchise based on the 1960 Rat Pack movie of the same name. *Ocean's Eleven* hit theaters in 2001, starring Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Bernie Mac, and more as a crew of criminals scheming to rob three Las Vegas casinos. Steven Soderbergh directed the film and two sequels — 2004's *Ocean's Twelve* and 2007's *Ocean's Thirteen* — with the same core cast.

While the main cast for all three *Ocean's* film remained largely the same, the crew has lost some major cast members since 2007.

Bernie Mac, who starred in the *Ocean's* trilogy as fast-talking Frank Catton and was revered as one of the funniest comic actors of the last half-century, died at 50 due to cardiac arrest just a year after *Ocean's 13 *premiered. Fellow comedy legend Carl Reiner, who played the wily Saul Bloom in all three *Ocean's* movies, died in June 2020 at age 98 from natural causes, leaving behind a career that netted him 11 Emmy Awards, a Grammy, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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Gary Ross helmed a fourth movie, 2018's *Ocean's 8,* which starred Sandra Bullock, as the sister of Clooney's Danny, alongside Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Anne Hathaway, and Awkwafina.

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It's also nice to know that Danny will make a comeback after it's revealed that Bullock's Debbie Ocean regularly visits the gravesite of her brother in the film. Still, no one is ever confirmed as being in the tomb, and Debbie even ponders whether or not Danny is really dead.

Clooney teased fans about a follow-up to *Ocean's 13* while chatting with Uproxx in 2023, saying, "We have a really good script for another *Ocean's* now, so we may end up doing another one," while promoting his new sports movie *The Boys in the Boat*. "It's actually a great script."

From L: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Jerry Weintraub, Andy García, Elliott Gould, Scott Caan, Qin Shaobo, and Don Cheadle from 'Ocean's Thirteen'.

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He added that "the idea is kind of like *Going in Style*," referring to the 1979 heist comedy starring George Burns and Art Carney as elderly bank robbers. Zach Braff remade the film in 2017 with a cast that featured Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin.

It's assumed that *Ocean's 14* will be separate from the *Ocean's* film that Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are set to star in, which will reportedly be set in Europe during the 1960s. Although if anyone is looking for a way to connect the storylines, Clooney had a great idea.

"Yeah! Margot Robbie is my mother? I've always thought that," Clooney said at the Hollywood premiere of *Boys in the Boat*. "Ryan Gosling is my father. Now when you think about it, it makes sense. Truly."**

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