Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling will play George Clooney’s parents in The Great Hustle prequel
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling will play George Clooney’s parents in The Great Hustle prequel – The film will reunite the actors after the success of Barbie, and with this new proposal they hope to lift the popular franchise.
By Megan Sauer
If Barbie was a great success among the public and critics, it was thanks to the ingenious script and the work of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling . The actors understood their characters perfectly and balanced themselves very well on screen.
Many want to see them again in a sequel to the famous doll, but that idea is still not clear at all. Instead, viewers will be able to enjoy their work in a prequel to The Great Hustle where they would play the parents of Danny Ocean, the protagonist of the original played by George Clooney .
The birth of ‘The Great Scam’
In 1960, the famous Hollywood rat pack, which included Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Sammy Davis Jr. Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop starred in a heist film called 11 to Midnight where a war veteran assembles a team to rob several casinos in the same night.
Although the film did not receive great reviews, the idea was always considered quite ingenious and it did not take many years for Hollywood to try to give it life with a new cast.
Since the late eighties there was talk of making a remake, but things didn’t quite work out and progress took a long time to arrive. Prospects improved in 2000 when Warner Bros. announced its intentions to make the film with a cast that would bring together the best of the era.
After going through several hands and thinking about several actors, the project was in the hands of Steven Soderbergh with George Clooney , Brad Pitt , Julia Roberts , Andy Garcia and Matt Damon in the main roles.
The Great Hustle became a huge hit at the box office and was praised for its cast, clever script and comedy style, which, of course, led the production company to consider a film franchise.
To shake things up, the company began working on a spin-off with all-female leads in 2015, although it also took some time to get this idea off the ground.
Ocean’s 8: The Hustlers, starring Sandra Bullock , Cate Blanchett , Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina , was released in 2018, but did not perform well with fans or critics, ending its run in billboard with a stable box office, but not close to the company’s expectations.
Although a sequel was left out, the film united the films by introducing Bullock as Debbie, sister of Danny Ocean, and from this point another premise was thought of for a new film.
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to star in prequel to ‘The Great Hustle’
Last year it was confirmed that Gosling and Robbie would join forces again as protagonists for a new version of The Great Hustle , but not many details were given about it, and it was not known at the time if it would be a reboot or a remake of the original.
According to Showbiz411 , the film will be called Oceans and will be a prequel set in the sixties where the actors will play Danny and Debbie’s parents, who live thanks to their cheating and theft, and will teach this lifestyle to their children. children.
It is also known that Jay Roach , director of Austin Powers in Goldmember, Trumbo and El Escándalo, will be responsible for this project, but there are still no other details about the script or the rest of the cast.
Considering the success of Barbie and the chemistry between the protagonists on and off camera, this new installment of the franchise could work very well, that is if the public gives it the opportunity, since in recent years most of these proposals have failed. despite the nostalgia of the fans.
