George Clooney Confirms Ocean's 14 Is Happening and Will Probably Shoot in 'About 9 or 10 Months'

It’s happening, and by “it,” we mean Ocean’s 14, the highly anticipated sequel movie to the iconic remake caper Ocean’s 11. Star George Clooney precocious confirmed that the movie has been greenlit and volition astir apt commencement to movie astatine immoderate constituent adjacent twelvemonth — with the large names from the 2001 archetypal acceptable to reprise their roles.

“We conscionable got the fund approved astatine Warner Bros. and we’re trying to acceptable up,” Clooney told E! News astatine a New York Film Festival screening. “It’s conscionable scheduling, truthful it’s conscionable mounting a commencement day for us. Probably commencement successful astir 9 oregon 10 months, shooting.”

Clooney besides noted however excited helium is to reunite with the stars of the archetypal formed for the caller film, which volition beryllium directed by David Leitch. “Yeah, Brad [Pitt], Matt [Damon] and Don [Cheadle] and Julia [Roberts],” helium gushed to the outlet. “I had meal past nighttime with Julia. They’re each inactive truly beloved friends. And so, the accidental to enactment unneurotic would beryllium fun.”

The cards are connected the array for "Ocean's 14." 👀

This is acold from the archetypal clip the actor-director has opened up astir what’s adjacent for the Ocean’s franchise. “We person a truly bully publication for different Ocean’s’ now, truthful we whitethorn extremity up doing different one,” helium told Uproxx backmost successful 2023 during an interrogation for his movie The Boys successful the Boat. “It’s really a large script.”

He was, though, tight-lipped during the chat astir whether oregon not the aforementioned publication would beryllium specifically for Ocean’s 14. “Well… I don’t privation to telephone it that,” Clooney said astatine the time. “I mean, the thought is benignant of similar ‘Going successful Style.’”

The Hollywood icon was referring to the 1979 heist drama by Martin Brest, which starred George Burns, Charles Hallahan, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. The movie follows 3 older gentlemen who set unneurotic to execute a heist, and was remade successful 2017 by Scrubs prima and Garden State manager Zach Braff.

That said, this recently greenlit installment is simply a wholly antithetic task from the antecedently announced prequel film, which is acceptable to prima Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. That film, which is expected to beryllium acceptable successful Europe successful the '60s, has Jay Roach attached to nonstop and Carrie Solomon to write, but not overmuch much has been made nationalist conscionable yet.

Photo by Dave Hogan/Mission/Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.