"This remake of the 1960 rat pack movie has taken over the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, and I have been here to see almost all of the filming. They close off huge sections at a time, so that has to cost a pretty penny. The employees have all become extra's and there have been like 500 extra's every day for the floor scenes. All of the cast has been here filming here, with different parts of the cast every day. The cast all stays on set, talk to the big crowds, and are very social. Julia just started filming here yesterday.
Apparently the story of this remake goes that Danny Ocean (Clooney) has been in prison in New Jersey for three years for fraud. When he gets out, his wife, Tess Ocean, (Julia Roberts) has divorced him while he was in the big house, and married the Evil Casino shark,Terry Benidict in (Andy Garcia) in Las Vegas.
Garcia plays the owner of the three largest Casino's in Las Vegas. The MGM, The MIRAGE, and the Bellagio. Apparently, twice a year, all of the money from his casino's is stored in a giant Vault underneath the ground in a vault that is connected by tunnels to all three casino's. Clooney want's to rob this money to bankrupt Bennidict and get Julia Back. They plan to rob the casino's during a big fight night between Heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis and some Russian guy (it was originally Mike Tyson, but I heard that he couldn't be dealt with so the dropped him). While everyone in town is watching the fight of the century, these 11 guys are lifting 200 million in cash from Garcia.
Brad Pitt has a hair cut like in the movie Seven. He was also in a scene where he wore a black wig and glasses as he wheeled out Carl Reiner on a stretcher through the casino. From what the crew says, this will be very much in the MI2 and Charile's Angels robbery scenes form - lots of very high tech toys, and lots scenes where timing is everything.
An example is that Matt Damon who is the pick pocket, has to steal the code key from the one guy who has it, and get into the vault before an hour because the codes change every hour, then pass a retina scan when only a real eye will do, then get in a vault that is filled with moving laser beams, that will trip an alarm. Guards everywhere, and video monitors as well. And seizmic monitors that pick up a car going over a speed bump 100 feet up. Stuff like that."
- From DarkHorizons.com
"I'm trying to show people that after five or six years running, that I'm undefeated and that I've won every belt that could be won, or I've beaten the guy that held the title, but the belt wasn't on the line. I'm trying to do that; I mean it's like a joke now. There's that many belts and that many politics in the game. Lennox Lewis calls it poli-tricks. It's gotten to a stage now that once you've made your name and established yourself in the boxing world, and made your money, then you should take alternative tacks. There's just too much politics in the game. Fighters should just box the best that God lets them. There's no better than Barrera and me in the featherweight division. I've thought about making up my own belt and defending that but that's a little bit tacky. I mean, who needs a belt? People know how good you are, why are you going to need a belt?"
"I see myself in the top three or four (pound for pound). After the Barrera fight, they should make me number one and toss one of those ring belts my way. I really like the style and the heart and the way that Felix Trinidad fights. Felix Trinidad, to me, is the complete package. He's a great fighter; he's got a lot of experience. He gets hit; he goes down and gets straight back up. He takes them out. He's devastating fighter. I really like him. I really like Shane Mosley. The speed factor of Shane Mosley is great. I really like watching Oscar De La Hoya too. Oscar is a fantastic fighter. He will come back and upset a lot of fighters. I honestly thought the night he boxed Tito Trinidad he won that fight and I think people know that. I think that by the time Oscar retires he will be a 100% living legend. Roy Jones is a great fighter. I would like to see him fight the most difficult in his weight class like everybody else would, but I can't take anything away from him. The guy has been rated in the pound for pound for a long time. That goes for Floyd Mayweather. There are quite a few great fighters out there. Fernando Vargas and Lennox Lewis. The guy won a gold medal and he's the best heavyweight out there. He unified the belts. When it comes to pound for pound ratings, he isn't usually very high, but he's up there. I think I can dominate as long as I want to and then retire."
From Fightnews.com