{"id":322455,"date":"2026-03-05T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/322455\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:12:08","slug":"lee-isaac-chung-exits-oceans-prequel-over-creative-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/322455\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Isaac Chung Exits ‘Ocean’s’ Prequel Over ‘Creative Differences’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDirector Lee Isaac Chung<\/a> is exiting the \u201cOcean\u2019s 11\u201d prequel over \u201ccreative differences.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tMargot Robbie\u2019s company LuckyChap is producing the film for Warner Bros. She\u2019s also starring in the movie opposite Bradley Cooper. Chung, best known for \u201cTwisters\u201d and the Oscar-nominated \u201cMinari,\u201d is the second filmmaker to depart the project after Jay Roach, who was originally hired to direct.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is an amicable split due to creative differences,\u201d a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen in a joint statement, Warner Bros. and LuckyChap called Chung a \u201csingular filmmaking talent whose vision and partnership have been invaluable to Warner Bros. and LuckyChap throughout this journey.\u201d They added, \u201cOur experience with him has only deepened our enthusiasm to collaborate on future projects together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCarrie Solomon is working on the screenplay, which \u2014\u00a0based on earlier reports<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is expected to take place in 1960s Europe. Although plot details haven\u2019t been confirmed, the storyline is expected to take place before the events of Steven Soderbergh\u2019s 2001 heist comedy \u201cOcean\u2019s Eleven,\u201d starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts as con artists who rob a Las Vegas casino. A critical and commercial darling, \u201cOceans\u201d inspired two sequels as well as the female-led \u201cOcean\u2019s Eight\u201d reboot with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Rihanna. Of course, those movies were based on 1960\u2019s \u201cOcean\u2019s 11,\u201d featuring five members of Frank Sinatra\u2019s Rat Pack.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros. is in the process of being sold to Paramount Skydance, which means the fate of future films is uncertain. However, Paramount\u2019s CEO David Ellison has pledged to release 30 films a year once the two media giants become one, meaning they\u2019ll need a lot of new material to fill out their theatrical slates.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of Chung\u2019s departure was first reported by Deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director Lee Isaac Chung is exiting the \u201cOcean\u2019s 11\u201d prequel over \u201ccreative differences.\u201d Margot Robbie\u2019s company LuckyChap is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,160062,46381],"class_list":["post-322455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lee-isaac-chung","tag-oceans-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}