{"id":108808,"date":"2025-07-31T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108808\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:45:12","slug":"lee-isaac-chung-in-talks-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108808\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Isaac Chung In Talks to Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> We are hearing that two-time Oscar-nominated Minari filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lee-isaac-chung\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lee-isaac-chung\" data-tag=\"lee-isaac-chung\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Isaac Chung<\/a> is in talks to direct the\u00a0Ocean\u2019s\u00a0prequel for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros\" data-tag=\"warner-bros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/luckychap\/\" id=\"auto-tag_luckychap\" data-tag=\"luckychap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LuckyChap<\/a> is producing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn true\u00a0Ocean\u2019s\u00a0fashion, the plot is locked in the vault. The project remains in early development with no cast deals in place at this time. The current screenplay is by Carrie Solomon and based on characters created by George Clayton Johnson &amp; Jack Golden Russell. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Las Vegas heist series of movies, originally made famous with the 1960 first installment starring five members of the Rat Pack \u2014 Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop \u2014 along with Angela Dickinson, has always been a cornerstone franchise for Warner Bros. Steven Soderbergh rebooted the series in 2001 with a new trilogy starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts. There was also a 2018 all-female version starring Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway and Cate Blanchett. The four movies cleared north of $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChung was nominated for best director and original screenplay for A24\u2019s Minari, which also won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance in 2020 and garnered Golden Globe and Critics\u2019 Choice wins, along with multiple Academy, Spirit, BAFTA and SAG nominations. Minari was nominated for six Oscars, winning one for Youn Yuh-jung as Best Supporting Actress. The film was named one of the 10 best films of 2020 by AFI and by the National Board of Review, which also awarded\u00a0Chung its Best Original Screenplay prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChung rebooted Universal and Warner Bros\u2019 Twisters, which posted an $81.2 million domestic opening and legged out to $267.7M domestic and $372.2M worldwide. The filmmaker\u2019s other projects include\u00a0Munyurangabo, which premiered in 2007 at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim, and episodes of\u00a0The Mandalorian\u00a0and\u00a0Skeleton Crew.\u00a0He is also set to direct the upcoming feature adaptation of the sci-fi novel\u00a0Traveler\u00a0by Joseph Eckert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA son of Korean immigrants, Chung\u00a0grew up on a small\u00a0farm\u00a0in rural\u00a0Arkansas\u00a0and attended Yale University before abandoning plans for medical school to earn his MFA in film studies at the University of Utah. He is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that two-time Oscar-nominated Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung is in talks to direct the\u00a0Ocean\u2019s\u00a0prequel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,69387,69388,69389,930,67,132,68,1021],"class_list":{"0":"post-108808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lee-isaac-chung","10":"tag-luckychap","11":"tag-oceans-11-prequel","12":"tag-oceans","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-warner-bros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114950512650624987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}