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Article: Pitt, Clooney to do `Ocean's' remake
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 10, 2000
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Forget the Rat Pack. Here comes the Brad Pack.
Brad Pitt and George "Young Brown Eyes" Clooney definitely are
signed for a remake of 1960's "Ocean's Eleven," leaving a lot less
budget for the other nine cast members still to come aboard.
With the cash those two command, all they might be able to afford
is "Ocean's 6.5."
Roll the dice for some details: Clooney won't be Frank Sinatra,
and Pitt won't be swirling olive pits a la Dino. They will play new
characters.
"Have you seen the old movie? It's awful. The new film will be
different. We have a good script," said director Steven Soderbergh.
But the "Ocean's Eleven" premise stays the same. "It's still about a
guy putting a crew together in ...