The new comedy crime caper will NOT be a remake of the 2001 movie, which itself was a remake of a 1960s Rat Pack movie With Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
Now, let’s clarify something about the planned Ocean’s Eight that Matt Damon explains in this story by ET Canada, where Damon was helping to promote Manchester By The Sea (which he produces) at the Toronto International Film Festival.
According to ET Canada, this will take place in the same universe as the Clooney/Pitt/Damon story… which really means that at some point, we are going to have to have some Avengers team up of on-screen chemistry between the original cast and this new cast.