Pay Cuts For All 'Oceans Twelve' Cast


Director Steven Soderbergh has said he is determined to make his A-list stars take a pay cut in Ocean's Twelve, according to IMDb. In the original remake of Ocean's Eleven, the major cast members like George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt all took salary cuts in order to get the film made.

Soderbergh says that salary negotiations for the Ocean's Twelve will be even harsher than before. He says, "When we were coming back from doing press in December 2001, I asked everybody if the idea of a sequel appealed and they were cool. But they had to make a promise: that is, we're gonna be the first sequel in history that costs exactly the same as the first one. And since the scale of the sequel's gonna be even bigger, they're all gonna have to take an even bigger pay cut than last time."

Soderbergh sees himself as the man to reverse a film tradition that stipulates more extravagant second movies. He adds, "I think somebody needs to do this - stop the idea that the second one has to be more expensive."

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