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29 March
2006
George Clooney
Signs Up For Ocean's 13
George
Clooney
and Brad
Pitt
are to return for a third robbery escapade
in their heist franchise
Ocean's Thirteen.
Past
stars Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta
Jones will not be in the movie,
but Ellen Barkin is to join the
cast.
George
Clooney will once again play Danny Ocean,
who will lead another lucrative robbery in
Las
Vegas.
Ocean's
Eleven,
made in 2001, was a remake of the
1960
movie
starring the original Rat
Pack
of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy
Davis Jr.
The 2001
film and its sequel, Ocean's
Twelve,
have together earned more than $800m
(£459m) worldwide.
The
third film will once again be co-produced
by Section Eight, the production company
co-owned by Clooney and Steven Soderbergh,
who returns as director.
Ocean's
Thirteen will include original cast
members Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Don
Cheadle, but producer Jerry Weintrub said
there were not significant roles for
Roberts or Zeta Jones in the current
script.
"We
didn't have a place to really use talent
like theirs, two big stars like that."
said Weintrub.
"They're
very good friends of ours, and neither
Soderbergh nor I would prevail on them to
come back and do nothing just to do
it."
The film
is scheduled to start shooting in Los
Angeles in July 2006, with the latest
sequel due in cinemas next
summer.
Soderbergh
and Clooney recently finished shooting The
Good German, a thriller set in post-war
Berlin.
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