Ocean's 8 Director Explains Deleted Cameos

Ocean’s Eight

Ocean ’s 8director Gary Ross explained why cameos by Matt Damon and Carl Reiner were cut from the female - centered heist film . A spinoff of Steven Soderbergh ’s successfulOcean’sfranchise , Ocean ’s 8stars Sandra Bullock , Cate Blanchett , Rihanna and others as an all - female team of super - thieves crashing the Met Gala for the ultimate heist . Themovie made off with $ 41.5 millionin its first weekend , the biggest opening ever for anOcean’sfilm .

In improver to the loaded atomic number 82 cast , include Anne Hathaway playing a sly parody version of herself , Ocean ’s 8also includes a rundown of big renown making cameo appearances . Among the openhanded names to appearin the celluloid as themselves are Kim Kardashian West , Katie Holmes , Olivia Munn , Serena Williams , Common and Anna Wintour . Two fellow member of the originalOcean ’s Elevencast , Elliott Gould and Shaobo Qin , also wrench up in brief appearances to reprise their characters . Originally though , there were going to be even more appearance byOcean ’s Elevenactors , with both Matt Damon and Carl Reiner slated to flatten in .

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consultation anticipate to seeDamon return as Linus Caldwelland Reiner as Saul Bloom were disappointed , however , as theactors ' cameos did not make itinto the finished plastic film . Now , Ocean ’s 8director Gary Ross has explained why the conclusion was made to drop the appearances . As Ross toldTHR :

" [ piece the cameos ] is an eclectic process of : how does it fit in the history and how is the narration unfolding ? This more than any movie I ’ve done had a really plentiful editorial process where you spiel with stuff , you feel clobber . I ’ve never scoot anything after I ’ve wrap up on any other picture before , but in a heist movie and an ensemble film , you ’re still working on the play . And we did a bunch of that , and so that was satisfying as well . "

He added :

" There were a lot of people who were gracious to us that just for column and storytelling reason did n’t make it in and some who did . If you know , we terminate up shooting probably another 10 days afterwards , so there ’s a lot of material and a mickle of shaping . But it really just comes to storytelling . "

With all the star great power already gracingOcean ’s 8 , the film surely did n’t ask a cameo by Damon for make money box at the box position . Nor did it need an appearance by George Clooney , whoseDanny Ocean may or may not be dead(leaving the doorway open on a succeeding visual aspect from the character , should theOcean’sfranchise continue ) . At least going by the early corner spot returns , it appears audiences are excited by the new all - distaff pack of heist - artists .