Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to Have Barbie Reunion in New Ocean’s Eleven Movie

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie are teaming up again.

The Barbie the stars will reunite in the previously announced upcoming Ocean’s Eleven movie — and according to producer Josey McNamara, it couldn’t be a better match.

“They’re wonderful together,” he recently told GamesRadar+ of Robbie, 33, and Gosling, 42, during a red carpet appearance for his film Saltburn at the BFI London Film Festival. “It would be amazing how many more projects we can do even beyond that.”

Along with Robbie, her husband Tom Ackerley and Sophia Kerr, McNamara co-founded LuckyChap Entertainment, which produced Saltburn and Barbie and will soon do the same for the upcoming ones Ocean’s movie.

Don’t expect plot details to be revealed anytime soon, though. As McNamara told GamesRadar+, “I can’t say much, but I think we’re just trying to do right by the franchise. I’m excited for people to experience it when it’s ready.”

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Although script details are unknown, the film will be a period piece. Robbie’s publicist told PEOPLE in May that the project is “original Ocean’s a film set in the 60s.”

An actress nominated for an Oscar will work with her Bomb director Jay Roach, PEOPLE confirmed at the time.

In addition to McNamara, Olivia Milch and Gary Ross will serve as executive producers on the as-yet-untitled film. Carrie Solomon is writing the screenplay.

Originally launched as a 1960 heist film starring Rat Packers Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Ocean’s Eleven was successfully rebooted by director Steven Soderbergh in 2001.

That Las Vegas heist movie, starring George Clooney as Danny Ocean, spawned two direct sequels: 2004’s Ocean’s Twelve and then Ocean’s Thirteen three years later. All female Oceanov 8 a spinoff followed in 2018, starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway.

Enter Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie Barbie (2023).

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In the meantime, Barbie is still riding high after its theatrical debut this summer. The film grossed over $1.437 million in global ticket sales, after crossing over The Movie Super Mario Bros as the highest grossing film of 2023 so far. It also became Warner Bros.’ the highest-grossing theatrical release of all time, not adjusted for inflation, through the end of August.

BarbieOther financial milestones include Greta Gerwig becoming the highest-grossing feature film director ever at the global box office.

From mid-August, Robbie — who predicted Barbie would “make $1 billion” at an early pitch meeting — she was expected to make $50 million as part of a deal that combined her salary and box office bonuses, according to Diversitywho cited multiple sources.

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