We Cracked The Code: Here Are The Things You Didn’t Know About The Ocean’s Series

The First Film Wasn’t Accepted By The Rat Pack

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Upon the release of Ocean’s Eleven, Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the original Rat Pack had some less-than-kind things to say about the movie. He called out the film saying:

“Give me a break. There will only ever be one Rat Pack. It’s a joke. All they are doing in the remake is a cheap impersonation of the original Rat Pack. People knew about Frank and his broads and Dean and his drinking. They knew that we partied together. With the new version, you’ve got five or six people who never had any association with each other off screen.” He claims that the Rat Pack was a close group of guys that were friends off-screen and not just random actors.