Ocean’s Eleven Prequel: Monica Barbaro Joins Bradley Cooper, Robbie

Monica Barbaro is getting ready to join the fray with the Ocean’s Eleven prequel.

The actress is in talks for a role in Warner Bros.‘ untitled feature that Bradley Cooper will direct, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Cooper and Margot Robbie will star in the movie alongside Wagner Moura as the villain.

Cooper is set to helm the film from a script he is writing after Carrie Solomon penned a previous draft. The project is based on characters created by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell.

Barbaro is set to star opposite Callum Turner in the romantic comedy One Night Only that Universal releases in August. She earned an Oscar nomination for her role as Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown.

Warner Bros.’ franchise launched in 2001 with Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven that remade the studio’s 1960 heist movie Ocean’s 11, starring Frank Sinatra and other Rat Pack members. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Matt Damon were among the stars of Soderbergh’s film trilogy that concluded with 2007’s Ocean’s Thirteen.

In 2018, Warner Bros. released Ocean’s Eight, director Gary Ross’ spinoff of Soderbergh’s trilogy that starred Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway.

Hailing from LuckyChap, the new movie counts Cooper as a producer. Executive producing are Josey McNamara, Bronte Payne, Bobby Wilhelm, Jay Roach, Michelle Graham, Lee Isaac Chung, Ashley Jay Sandberg, Gary Ross and Olivia Milch.

More to come.