SUBMITTED BY Timbo
February 12, 2004 — Will the poster be big enough for all the huge Hollywood names that have signed on for Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Twelve"?
Tinseltown was abuzz yesterday at the idea of clashing egos, sky-high budgets and celebrity catfights over top billing.
But [producer] Weintraub insists none of that will be a problem.
"They're all great friends. They can't wait to start shooting [in April]," he said.
"This is not hard duty. We're shooting it in Europe. We're going to have a lot of fun, and the movie's going to sell a lot of popcorn."
Clooney will reprise his pivotal role as veteran thief Danny Ocean, who led a gang of associates in the heist of three Las Vegas casinos in the hit 2001 film - and will head an international looting spree in "Twelve."
Zeta-Jones will play a beautiful Europol agent named Isabel Lahiri who specializes in tracking down master thieves and who was once in a serious relationship with Pitt's character, Rusty Ryan.
Soderbergh, who worked with Zeta-Jones on the acclaimed drug drama "Traffic," and Clooney, who starred opposite her in the recent Coen brothers' comedy "Intolerable Cruelty," were both keen to have her join the cast.
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