Ocean's Eleven female spin-off

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Has Ghostbusters taught them nothing? I wouldn't mind a female lead, I wouldn't mind a majority female cast, but an all female cast just screams 'look at me, I'm being progressive'. With eight main cast and not a single male there is no excuse it just seems to be sexism the other way, an all female cast is no better than an all male cast they are both just different sides of the same coin.

The biggest difference is that barely anyone notices when there's an all male cast (or 90% male). It's the norm, yet an all female cast is still considered something very exceptional, and will make people assume that there's some sort of statement being made.

I don't doubt that the main reason that people are even able to make movies with all female casts is by coasting on the public interest in "progressiveness", but it just means that we're in a time period where they can actually try something like that. Hopefully when all the fervor dies down it will be considered something more normal and someone won't have to jump through a series of hoops to have either gender comprise the majority of the cast.

 

[Fallow]

As long as they don't take the Paul Feig route and start insulting the audience (and their parents) it could be a passable (though not too interesting) movie.


Bullock is an excellent choice for a middle-of-the-road swashbuckler, and Helena Bonham Carter is kind of the female Johnny Depp. Hathaway and Catie are likely too boring to bring anything interesting to a lightweight, charm-based heistscene and then there's ....

Spoiler: Rihanna?

I don't know what kind of cocaine-induced festivity preceded that decision, but it must have been a good one.



Hmm, this might be more fun if they cast everyone as a woman, including all the bad guys and everything. Just making it a movie about women, with women jokes and women thoughts and all. No bashing, no battle of the sexes, just a movie that appeals to women, thinks like women, and is all about the heist stuff.

 

[Laughing Man]

What reason is there that it couldn't work?

Rihanna? Seriously you telling me there is such a dearth of female talent in Hollywood that they had to roll out that chart bothering polluter of the air waves?

 

[RanD00M]

I see no problem with it, but it does feel pandering. Whether it will be good or not, only time can tell, but here's hoping.
You'd think though with all the talk of equality they'd have just that, equal parts, instead of ONLY men or ONLY women.

Never saw the original Ocean's movie, never saw the remake series with Clooney and Pitt, won't see this one. Don't care about heist movies, never will. So they can make new ones of it with whomever they want, I have zero stake in this franchise.

What great insight you have brought into this discussion.

 

[American Fox]

Didn't John Muhlaney make an awesome bit about how this wouldn't work?

 

[09philj]

There's always room to be surprised, but the words "cynical cash grab" are the first that spring to mind. A slick, smart, female led crime caper would be a nice thing to have, but if this is one it will be purely accidental, and secondary to the fact that it makes loads of money.

 

[Fallow]

There's always room to be surprised, but the words "cynical cash grab" are the first that spring to mind. A slick, smart, female led crime caper would be a nice thing to have, but if this is one it will be purely accidental, and secondary to the fact that it makes loads of money.

For your first instinct to be incorrect, the movie would need a title that wasn't 100% banking on brand recognition to sell. Adding Rihanna on top of that is beyond cynical cash grab, it's downright malignant.

 

[hermes]

Lets be clear here. Ocean's Eleven as a franchise exists so that some actors that get along in real life can tag along exotic locales looking cool/smart together while a subplot that only exist to give them an excuse sort-of moves forwards. The movies could work as well as a heist, a road trip or a paranormal adventure. The plot, the directors, even the genre only exist to highlight the real force that drives the movie: the charisma and chemistry between the actors (not the characters, the actors, because they can pretty much be cast as themselves).

As such, there is already a women's side of Ocean Eleven:

Spoiler

But whatever, other than that I see no problem with having a female version of Ocean's Eleven, except I don't know if the actresses casted have the chemistry to pull this off.

 

[KissingSunlight]

Didn't John Muhlaney make an awesome bit about how this wouldn't work?

You're right. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a youtube video of the stand up performance. He repeats the bit in the first part of the interview.