James Corden lands key supporting role in new ‘Ocean’s’ movie

He joins Rihanna, Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett in the female-led reboot.

James Corden has joined the cast of the new Ocean’s movie.

The Late Late Show host has landed a key supporting role as an insurance investigator who begins to suss out the film’s eight-member heist crew, Deadline reports.

The first pictures of Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock shooting the new movie, Ocean’s 8, which has a female-led cast, emerged in October.

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Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Anne Hathaway and Awkwafina make up the titular “Ocean’s eight”.

The Hunger Games‘ Gary Ross is directing from a script he co-wrote, with George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh serving as producers on the project. Shooting started in October in New York and Warner Bros. has set a release date of June 18, 2018.

Before she appears in Ocean’s Eight, Rihanna will be seen in upcoming sci-fi film Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets.

She co-stars alongside Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne and Clive Owen in the film, which set for release in July 2017. Writer-director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) is adapting the story from a popular series of French 1960s graphic novels.

Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets will be Rihanna’s second major live-action film role following 2012’s Battleship. She also took on a voice role in last year’s computer animated hit Home.

Meanwhile, James Corden has called out Pierce Brosnan for being rude to him at a U2 gig.

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