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You can't keep a good thief from doing what they do best, and you really can't stop actors who play thieves from it, either.

Case in point - it looks like George Clooney and Brad Pitt want to do Ocean's 14, the fourth film that would see them together as a pair of delightfully charming master thieves. The news comes from Deadline, who say the duo have approached director Edward Berger to helm the next outing for their characters. There's just one problem with that, though: George Clooney's character, the titular Danny Ocean, is supposed to be dead.

Let's back up a bit to 2018, when Sandra Bullock was leading her own heist team in the franchise's first spinoff, Ocean's 8. The "Ocean" of this movie is Debbie Ocean, played by Bullock, who is Danny's little sister. When she starts putting together her own heist, Debbie doesn't call her thieving older brother; firstly, because she doesn't need him, but secondly, because he's dead.

Yes, Danny Ocean is supposedly dead in Ocean's 8 - the film goes so far as to show his photo at a grave bearing his name. We don't see his body, of course, but the film suggests that at least Debbie seems to believe her brother is gone; at the grave, she speaks reverently to him about how he "would have loved" the heist she pulls off. 

Of course, the moviegoing public seemed to know from the jump that Danny had evaded his mortal sentence. All the way back in June of 2018, just two days after Ocean's 8's release, Business Insider was already theorizing about how and why Danny chose to appear deceased, and none of them were just to let his sister take the spotlight. To be fair, the movie does include Debbie telling Danny, "you better be in there" when talking about his grave, suggesting that even she had her doubts...

Whether any of their theories (or the theories of many online fans) are true about Danny's six-feet-deep-act, what the Ocean's 14 news seems to confirm is that it is an act, indeed, and that Danny Ocean will be back to make the world his crackable safe once more.

Then again, who knows? Maybe the movie will be about Pitt's Rusty Ryan and the gang breaking Danny out of Purgatory. It worked for Pirates of the Caribbean... sort of.

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