This previous weekend, Cate Blanchett had her newest film, Black Bag, hit theaters, which has been getting good buzz from critics. The film had the Oscar winner re-teaming with director Steven Soderbergh, who famously made the unique Ocean’s trilogy within the early ’00s earlier than serving as a producer on Ocean’s 8. So once I talked to Blanchett, in fact I needed to ask the actress if she’d talked to him about coming again to the franchise.
Ocean’s 14 has been rumored for years, most lately with Selection reporting in January that Bullet Prepare director David Leitch is in talks to helm the sequel (after Conclave’s Edward Berger was beforehand reportedly within the combine). Right here’s what Blanchett needed to say once I requested her in regards to the future:
Oh, look, I am all the time in Steven [Soderbergh]’s ear to the purpose of just about being like a stalker. So, you understand, I’d do something with him anytime he is aware of that, however typically I want to specific it publicly so he would not assume I am joking. I do know George and Brad are cooking up one other one, however I feel Steven’s most likely – he liked making these motion pictures and, you understand, they’re iconic movies [and] tangentially I used to be concerned in a model of that. So, I imply, however I feel he is continually shifting on. Steven’s by no means repeating himself.
Cate Blanchett has labored with Steven Soderbergh a couple of instances over time, beginning together with her starring function in his 2006 struggle drama The Good German. Throughout our interview, Blanchett shared that she’s all the time as much as work with the filmmaker, however within the case of each of them and Ocean’s, the filmmaker is probably going stepping again this time round. That being stated, she did point out that George Clooney and Brad Pitt are extra doubtless fronting the following installment somewhat than a sequel to Ocean’s 8 coming alongside.
Within the current report about Ocean’s 14, it was shared that George Clooney’s manufacturing firm Smokehouse was creating the function with each Clooney and Pitt anticipated to return. However will the entire gang from the unique be again too? Over the summer season, Matt Damon shared he was “open” to returning to the franchise, however it could rely if the entire gang may get again collectively.
Sadly, for the reason that final Ocean’s film with Clooney and Pitt got here out, two of the unique Eleven have died: Bernie Mac again in 2008 and Carl Reiner in 2020. To be able to preserve the quantity proper, I might see maybe the brand new film involving a couple of of the members of Ocean’s 8, particularly if they will’t get all of the forged from the unique film. I’d actually like to see Blanchett within the combine.
As you may recall, Ocean’s 8 related with Ocean’s 11 as a result of Sandra Bullock’s Debbie was the sister of George Clooney’s Danny Ocean. How cool would it not be to see them mixing groups? I’m simply imagining all of the nice one-liners that may very well be added to the Ocean’s franchise. Whereas I proceed to consider how Ocean’s might proceed, you’ll be able to see Cate Blanchett play a spy in Black Bag, now in theaters.