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Margot Robbie drops her Ocean's Eleven prequel director, and is hunting for a new shotcaller
Twisters and Minari director Lee Isaac Chung has exited the Ocean's prequel
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I have bad news for everyone looking forward to Lee Isaac Chung's Ocean's prequel film: the director has exited the project.
Deadline reported that Chung left the film, which is being produced by Warner Bros. and Margot Robbie's production company, LuckyChap Entertainment. Reportedly, “this is an amicable split due to creative differences.”
Currently, the studio and production company are looking for a new director for the project. Whoever gets the job will be working with a screenplay written by Carrie Solomon (writer of A Family Affair), with Robbie still set to star and produce. Plot details are still being kept under wraps.
Chung's departure is a bummer, considering how the director's follow-up to his lyrical Oscar-nominated film, Minari, was the raucously fun Twisters sequel starring Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Twisters made its Bill Paxton-led progenitor look like child's play, merging a self-aware goofiness with pastoral cinematography and genuinely terrifying action set pieces. There was zero reason for that movie to be as good as it is. In other words, with Twisters, Chung proved that he could not only work but thrive at the helm of a studio blockbuster while still retaining his own creative fingerprint.
Hopefully, Chung will find another project to lead in no time. But with the Warners and Paramount merger looming over the industry, Hollywood certainly feels like it's in the ominous calm before the storm, as seen in Twisters.
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