Hollywood’s whole “all-female version of an existing property” fad might have taken a swift kick to the male genitals with the failure of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot, but that doesn’t mean that a couple of the ideas that got pitched during that phase weren’t good ones. Easily the most appealing of the lot was Ocean’s 8, a new addition to Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s franchise of popular heist films.
This time around the heisting is led by Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean, the just as criminal sister of George Clooney’s Danny Ocean from the original trilogy of films. Just like her estranged brother, Debbie puts together a diverse team of individuals with very particular criminal skills to pull off her job, which as the first trailer shows us, is a $150 million jewellery heist at the New York Met Gala.
As is tradition for the Ocean’s films, Ocean’s 8 boasts a hell of a star-studded cast, arguably even better than the original films as Debbie rounds out her team with Cate Blancett’s Lou, Helena Bonham Carter’s Rose, Anne Hathaway’s Daphne Kluger, Rihanna’s Nine Ball, Sarah Paulson’s Tammy, Mindy Kaling’s Amita, and Nora Lum aka Akwafina’s Constance
Soderbergh is only on producing duties this time around as he tapped personal friend Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit) to direct and co-write this latest Ocean’s chapter. Ross has never quite had the stylish flair that Soderbergh does to his directing and it kind of shows in this trailer. This definitely does not look bad at all, and the cast alone – with the always-dependable Damian Lewis playing the film’s main villain – is a massive point of appeal, but this doesn’t look as… cool as the jazzy previous films. Of course this is just a trailer though, and as we’ve recently learned, trailers may not be the best indication of a film’s quality.
We’ll be able to judge the final product for ourselves when Ocean’s 8 release on 8 June 2018.
Last Updated: December 19, 2017
For the Emperor!
December 19, 2017 at 22:37
The trailer doesn’t really scream “watch the movie at the cinema”. Then again, I did not watch the others in the cinema either, but still loved them and got them on DVD. As it stands now I will wait for the DVD release on this one as well.
Skittle
December 20, 2017 at 07:15
Rihanna boooo! Anne Hathaway boooo!
Original Heretic
December 20, 2017 at 08:08
Leave Anne alone.
Or I’ll…I’ll….
I’ll think of something.
Magu
December 20, 2017 at 07:15
Good morning working class compatriots! What shit are we gonna talk today? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7afbb4d66bdd8005d1f4f2592333d7433e4e64cb93ea526f579ba03d6a7db218.gif
Craig "CrAiGiSh" Dodd
December 20, 2017 at 07:53
This looks shit …
This is like the equivalent of a “Sex in the City” – with an all male cast.
No one wants to see that.
Admiral Chief Silver Dragon
December 20, 2017 at 08:32
How does one SEC?
Magu
December 20, 2017 at 08:35
It only takes a sec for some. <.<
Admiral Chief Silver Dragon
December 20, 2017 at 08:36
How are you still able to comment….oh, wait, I need to click apply for the ban to go in to effect
Magu
December 20, 2017 at 08:37
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/293e5f357dc950cab9d1b494d856a4702d3c8213c84acf7aeb75a576f0b98678.jpg
Lord Chaos
December 20, 2017 at 08:43
You banned him? for what?
Craig "CrAiGiSh" Dodd
December 20, 2017 at 08:36
Fixed 😛
Original Heretic
December 20, 2017 at 08:39
Did it only take you a sec to fix?
Magu
December 20, 2017 at 08:39
Minus 1 sec actually.
Original Heretic
December 20, 2017 at 08:44
Imagine constantly getting those two word mixed up.
“Just a sec” becomes dangerous….
Original Heretic
December 20, 2017 at 08:23
Rihanna is Nine Ball?
I don’t what to say….. So…many…thoughts…
FortuityLane
December 20, 2017 at 09:22
Just for the cast, I wouldn’t mind taking my woman to see it. For her. Not for me. And not to see Helen Bonham Carter either
Yondaime
December 20, 2017 at 11:03
This looks frigging awesome
Khul
December 20, 2017 at 12:21
yep, going the same route as “the all female” Ghostbusters …….