‘Ocean’s 8’: Rihanna, Anne Hathaway Join Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock in Reboot

10 August 2016 8:16 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Rihanna and Anne Hathaway are in negotiation to join “Oceans Eight,” the all-female reboot of “Oceans Eleven.”

Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mindy Kaling, who had been previously been linked to the Warner Bros. project, are officially in the film. Nora Lum (better known by her rap name Awkwafina) has also boarded the spinoff from director Gary Ross (“The Hunger Games”).

The film will follow a similar path to the George Clooney-starrer about group of thieves and cons led by Bullock who try to pull off a major heist.

Ross told Slashfilm in June that the film is continues the “Oceans Eleven” trilogy, which also starred Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.

“It’s a pretty similar tone. You know, Steven Soderbergh and I are incredibly close friends, and we would not have done this if we weren’t. I don’t think he would’ve wanted »

- Justin Kroll

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