With the unexpected runaway success of "Oceans 11", starring Geroge Clooney, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and a host of Hollywood's other A-list celebrities, the studio has already begun production on a sequel, "Oceans 12". Excited about the cash cow potential contained in the Oceans saga, George Lucas has signed on to write, produce and direct the ten-film prequel series over the next eight years.
Representatives at Industrial Light Magic, Lucas' famed production company, would not confirm the deal, but anonymous internet newsgroups and chat rooms, deemed perfectly reliable by many, have already provided the details of the transaction.
"The first two films will start with Danny Ocean's grandfather, a prohibition era bootlegger," swears MovieGoy20, a noted film speculator. "The next three are about his dad, a drunk fraudsman and check kiter. The last five will feature a young SO AND SO Oceans as he chases big jackpots through his pre-Oceans 11 life."
Twists along the way are expected to include paternity uncertainty, a history of dame-addiction and the grandest special effects ever rendered into a white-collar crime action sequence.
Franco, a bus boy working in Beverly Hills overheard a meeting between Mr. Lucas and studio executives, and asserts he heard Lucas saying "We'll probably lose our shirts on most of them, but if we can roll out a line of [fashion] clothing and get Taco Bell behind us, we'll still make a killing, even off number 7 when we show [his] elaborate scheme to collect paper route money on fictitious subscribers." And also, "I can make a kids [bicycle] chase scene better than in ET and honestly, I've been waiting for a vehicle like this to do it."
While critics of "corporate whoring" are lauding this as "yet another desecration of modern cinematography," movie goers can expect the first installment, tentatively titled "Oceans Won" to hit theaters Thanksgiving 2005.
