Oscar nominee Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent, Civil War) is in talks to star alongside Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper in Warner Bros.’ new Ocean’s prequel.
Cooper is directing the film, which is scheduled for release on June 25, 2027, and is also producing the project with Tom Ackerley, Josie McNamara, Milan Popelka and Robbie’s LuckyChap company. Cooper wrote the screenplay, the plot details of which are “locked in a safe.”
However, at CinemaCon, Robbie confirmed that the prequel will take place at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, with Ocean’s Eleven portraying the cunning parents of conman Danny Ocean, who mastermind the Las Vegas casino heist.
“Before Danny Ocean set foot in Las Vegas, two masterminds taught him everything he knew: his parents,” Robbie teases in a hot reel for Warner Bros.’ 2027 slate. “In our new film, we see them in their prime when they pulled off an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.”
The original “Ocean’s Eleven” premiered in 1960 and starred Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford and Dean Martin. Ocean’s 11, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, spawned two sequels (2004’s Ocean’s 12 and 2007’s Ocean’s 13), as well as a 2018 reboot, Ocean’s 8, starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Anne. Hathaway and Rihanna. These films earned more than $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.
Executive producers include McNamara, Bronte Payne, Bobby Wilhelm, Jay Roach, Michelle Graham, Lee Isaac Chung, Ashley Jay Sandberg, Gary Ross, and Olivia Milch. The untitled prequel film is based on the character created by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell. Carey Solomon worked on an earlier draft of the script.
Earlier this year, Moura made history by becoming the first Brazilian to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor and the first to win the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for his starring role in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent. Moura won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Critics Circle for his outstanding performance. The actor is known for his standout roles in films such as Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” as well as his memorable portrayal of cartel boss Pablo Escobar in Netflix’s “Narcos.”
Moura will next be seen opposite Greta Lee in Louis Leterrier’s Netflix sci-fi thriller The Last House, as well as Rachel Rose’s directorial debut The Last Day starring Alicia Vikander, which premiered at Tribeca. Other upcoming projects include Last Night at the Lobster, which he will direct and co-star with Elisabeth Moss and Brian Tyree Henry. He co-stars with Kristen Stewart in the vampire thriller “Flesh of the Gods,” directed by Panos Cosmatos. and “Art” by Ralph Fiennes and Colin Farrell. Moura is repped by WME, Imprint, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Cole.
