'Ocean's Thirteen' to commence this year

A second follow-up to 2001 heist movie Ocean's Eleven is in the works, reports Variety.

Director Steven Soderbergh and producers George Clooney and Jerry Weintraub are in the early stages of plotting the sequel, armed with a script by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the pair who have previously scripted the likes of Walking Tall and Runaway Jury.

Last year's Ocean's Twelve reunited Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts in their efforts to pull off a series of heists whilst having to deal with a determined Interpol agent and a French rival known as 'the Night Fox'.

The filmmakers hope to have entered production on Ocean's Thirteen by the end of the year.