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Bradley Cooper and Margot Robbie are getting into the heist business. Cooper is reportedly in talks to join the Barbie star to lead a prequel to Ocean’s 11. Supposedly set in Europe in the 1960s, the upcoming Oceans movie will almost certainly be a slick, enjoyable crime caper like the films that came before it. But the real question is: what will it be called?
The Ocean’s prequel was first announced back in 2022, with Robbie attached. Though there was at one point rumors that her Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling would be involved, Warner Bros. is putting a somewhat different team together. The Hollywood Reporter reported the news on Thursday. Lee Isaac Chung, director of Twisters and Minari, will direct.
The as-yet-untitled (and unconfirmed) Ocean’s movie would be either the fifth or sixth film in the franchise, which began with Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 Vegas heist flick Ocean’s 11. He followed that up with Ocean’s 12 and Ocean’s 13 in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the female-focused spin-off Ocean’s 8 premiered in 2018. In addition to Robbie’s prequel, a sequel, Ocean’s 14, is also in the works. George Clooney and Brad Pitt are set to return for 14.
It’s unknown at this point if Ocean’s 14 or this prequel will come out first—or indeed if both of them will end up getting made, since as of now they’re only in development. The Robbie movie sounds like it could be a lot of fun, though, and the ’60s setting would be a neat way to pay homage to the original Frank Sinatra-led 1960 movie that Soderbergh remade in 2001. The big question, assuming the prequel gets made, is what it should be called.
The Ocean’s Movie Sequel Naming Conventions Contain a Lot of Possibility
Ocean’s 11 gets its name because Clooney’s suave thief Danny Ocean gathers a team of eleven guys to rob a casino in Vegas. The sequels Ocean’s 12 and 13, ostensibly added more people to the teams, but really they were just called that because they were one number higher than the previous film. Ocean’s 12 sounds so much better than Ocean’s 11 2, right? The Ocean’s 8 spin-off complicates things a little bit. It takes place after 13, when Danny is supposedly dead and his sister, Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean, gathers a team of eight for her own heist. Ocean’s 14 will be called Ocean’s 14 because it’ll be the first new one to actually have Clooney and Pitt and most of the original team.
So where does that leave this prequel? Ocean’s 10 might be a good name—it’s one before Ocean’s 11, after all—but Ocean’s 8 having already snagged a lower digit than the original movie makes this less appealing. Maybe it’s Ocean’s 1, which would really signify that it’s an origin story? Or Ocean’s Zero?