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Edward Berger won\u2019t direct Ocean\u2019s 14.<\/p>\n
The All Quiet on the Western Front filmmaker admitted he was intrigued by the idea of working on the franchise but ultimately decided he couldn\u2019t add anything new to it.<\/p>\n
He told Deadline: \u201cWe were talking at that time, Brad Pitt and I, and yes, was I seduced by the thought of making something like that. I\u2019m from a small place in Germany. I\u2019ve never had those opportunities. And suddenly Brad Pitt and George Clooney and Julia Roberts and Matt Damon, I would be able to make a movie with them. Ballad of A Small Player was a hard movie to make, and I felt like, wouldn\u2019t it be great to make a studio picture? The studio needs that movie, the stars want the movie, as does the audience. Everyone needs the movie. It\u2019s a franchise. I can pay my crew. I can have fun with them. It\u2019s a temptation. But deep down inside I knew it\u2019s not my movie, it\u2019s Steven Soderbergh\u2019s movie. He invented that, beautifully. He made them, and I\u2019m just following in his footsteps. What is new for me?\u201d<\/p>\n
While stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney tried to encourage Edward to join the movie, he ultimately ended up persuading Brad to join another of his projects instead.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI went to bed, slept eight hours, and knew, it\u2019s not me. I called Brad because we had talked a bunch of times. I knew he was open to doing something, and I basically said, I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t want to do \u2018Ocean\u2019s\u2019 and hope I haven\u2019t offended you. But I have this great script [The Riders] that I would love you to look at because I think it might be a challenge for both of us. He read it in two days and called back and said, I want to do it. It\u2019s the best script I\u2019ve ever read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing I\u2019m sure of is that early next year we\u2019ll shoot The Riders with Brad. The script is ready, the financing is there, and Brad is ready. It\u2019s just a beautiful journey, that movie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Riders is a real character piece. We\u2019ve got, I would say, the biggest movie star in the world, making a real character movie and really going for it. In this film, we pick up his character on a journey that starts with him building a house. He\u2019s a real man, man. He\u2019s not like me. This guy can build a house. We meet him as he is building a house for his family, he\u2019s the real provider, the real traditional man, and then he is on the journey to find his wife who\u2019s gone suddenly. And all this manhood, all this masculinity just strips away and falls apart and all we are left with is a heap of a human being, a small human being with all his frailties. To dissect this person through Brad Pitt, I think is a beautiful task. To really see someone unravel and everything he\u2019s relied on up till here as a character is suddenly taken away from him. And just the core of his being is left behind, and he needs to find what that is. I think that\u2019s a great journey that touches on the history of Europe. We take him from Ireland to Greece, to Brussels to Amsterdam and back to Ireland. It\u2019s a massive odyssey throughout Europe, during which he falls apart. And I can\u2019t wait to see Brad do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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