It’s the last week before Christmas and the present comes early! I’ve been excited for this all-female Oceans flick for some time. Normally I’d say we don’t need another reboot/sequel/spinoff what-have-you… but y’know what, this year (well, any year really), an extra dose of girl power is extra awesome. 2017 is the year of Wonder Woman, and 2018 will be the year of Wonder Women. I mean this is as close as we’re probably gonna get to an all-female Avengers flick!
This is the one to watch just for the cast. Bullock + Blanchett + Bonham Carter … just those three alone is enough to shell out full price cinema ticket (if I had to pay that is). My hubby and I watched this right after dinner and he’s as pumped as I am to see this [is it any wonder I love my man?]
So Sandra Bullock is playing Danny Ocean’s sister Debbie, I wonder if this all-female Oceans flick idea happened when she and George Clooney were filming Gravity four years ago. In any case, buh-bye Clooney, Pitt, Damon & co. and hell-o ladies!! Fresh out of prison, Debbie Ocean plans a big heist at the Met Gala in NYC. What a team she’s put together: Lou (Cate Blanchett), Nine Ball (Rihanna), Amita (Mindy Kaling), Constance (Awkwafina), Rose (Helena Bonham Carter), Daphne Kluger (Anne Hathaway), and Tammy (Sarah Paulson). Too bad Elizabeth Banks dropped out of the cast, though I don’t mind Jennifer Lawrence isn’t in this (apparently she was offered a part).
Per IMDb, the eight main cast has won four Oscars, two Emmys, eight Grammys, six Golden Globes, five BAFTAs, and 10 SAGs combined. Woo wee! #girlpower
I totally forgot about Richard Armitage in this, he didn’t have a single line in the trailer so I have no idea who he’s playing. I barely noticed James Corden either until I saw it a second time. No matter though, forget the boys, it’s all about the ladies whoopin’ it up!
Not sure how involved Steven Soderbergh is on this spinoff, but given his track record with bad ass female in his movies I’d imagine he’d approve. This time we’ve got Gary Ross (Hunger Games, Seabiscuit) in the director’s chair and he wrote the script with Olivia Milch (one of Variety’s 10 screenwriters to watch in 2016).
I’m always up for a heist flick and this seriously it looks like a riot! The worst thing about this is the wait… June 8 can’t come soon enough. Well now I now what I’ll be anticipating come Summer movie season!
What say you? Thoughts on Oceans 8’s first trailer?
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Looks like fun. If it’s really good, then I hope the sequel will get Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones to reprise their roles from the franchise.
Oh yeah, I love Zeta-Jones and I wish she’d do more films!
Richard Armitage is playing Claude Becker, the baddie in this film. He plays an art dealer.
Thanks for the info Fabo!
I strongly agree with every single word of you this post. I’m pumped for this and even I’m not into reboots and stuff but yeah, don’t care. Imma watch it!
Hey Shivani! Imma watch it for sure, maybe even several times 😀 Time for the ladies to shine!
I’m a big fan of the original films so I’m looking forward to this one. Should be a fun heist film.
Yeah I think it would be with this cast!
Hmmm, I don’t know. Something about it didn’t click for me. Interested in the idea and hope to see more before the release.
Hi Keith, I’m surprised as I thought you like Blanchett. It just looks like fun, nice to see her do an action comedy once in a while, plus anything w/ Helena Bonham-Carter is fun for me 🙂
This looks like it could be highly entertaining, Ruth. BTW, I must apologise for my absence on your blog. I promise to do some catching up.
This film does line quite funny. I will have to watch the old ones with Clooney and Julia Roberts. I hope she makes a cameo in this movie and it was also be interesting if Clooney is to. There were two men in the trailer I wasn’t sure which was Richard Armitage or was the other Damien Lewis. Clearly one of them is Sandra Bullock’s sex object.