George Clooney was rushed to a hospital in Italy on Tuesday after his motor scooter was struck by a car, the Associated Press reported.
The John Paul II hospital in Olbia, Italy, told the AP that the Oscar-winning star was released on Tuesday after treatment for undisclosed injuries.
Local daily La Nuova Sardegna said actor-director had been headed to a film set on Tuesday when his motorbike was hit by a car near Costa Corallina on the island of Sardinia.
“George was treated and released from an Olbia hospital,” Clooney’s rep said in a statement. “He is recovering at home and will be fine.”
Clooney, 57, has been in Italy shooting a Hulu miniseries adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical World War II novel “Catch-22.”
In April, the streaming network announced that Kyle Chandler would replace Clooney in the co-lead role of Col. Cathcart in the series so that Clooney could concentrate on producing and directing the limited series.
Clooney is playing Scheisskopf, a training commander at a cadet school in California who is obsessed with winning parade tournaments and known as a general idiot who makes the enlisted men’s lives a living hell.
Christopher Abbott (“Girls”) stars as Yossarian, a bombardier for the U.S. Air Force during the war who faces a constant struggle of serving in the armed forces and doing what he must in order to survive.
Heller’s novel was previously adapted into a 1970 feature film starring Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam and Art Garfunkel.
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After 15 years, the A-list cast of "Ocean's Eleven" has remarkably retained their star power. Coming off Oscar noms for "Traffic" and "Erin Brockovich," director Steven Soderbergh chose to make a movie "with no social value whatsoever," but it has proven to have more value than anyone first gave it credit for. TheWrap has teamed up with IMDb to share 11 enthralling facts about the crime caper.
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Bruce Willis was originally set to star, but ultimately decided to bow out. "By the time I got to it, all the good stuff was done and I wanted to play one of the gang,” Willis said in 2000. He eventually appeared in a cameo role in "Ocean’s Twelve."
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Matt Damon’s part as Linus Caldwell was meant for Mark Wahlberg, who ultimately starred in a remake of another classic, “Planet of the Apes” instead. The NY Daily News reported in 2000 that Wahlberg criticized fellow Bostonian Damon, saying "he wants to have been to jail, and say he's tough."
Shaobo Qin, who played the “greaseman” Chinese acrobat The Amazing Yen, made his motion picture debut with "Ocean's Eleven." He is a professional acrobat and contortionist in real life, and he has also appeared in both "Ocean's" sequels as well. But the acrobat has never acted in any other film.
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Julia Roberts said in an interview that she fell asleep twice trying to watch the original "Ocean’s 11" (1960), starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford.
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George Clooney "charmed" Julia Roberts into starring in the film by sending her the script with a $20 bill attached. (She had just starred in Steven Soderbergh’s "Erin Brockovich"). "I heard you're getting 20 a picture," he wrote. She said in an interview with Barbara Walters that it was the first time she was paid to read a script.
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Don Cheadle, who plays Basher, is actually uncredited in the film. “With 'Ocean’s,' there was some stuff that happened behind the scenes that I didn’t like how it went down, so I just said, 'take my name off it,'" he said in an interview in 2009.
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Don Cheadle was embarrassed about the Cockney accent he used in the film and eventually apologized for using it. It’s considered one of the worst British accents performed by an American actor.
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Soderbergh said the original script was 165 pages, whereas the final version is only 115. “It wasn’t until three weeks into editing that I felt we’d been successful in keeping everyone in the same film,” he said.
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After 15 years, the A-list cast of "Ocean's Eleven" has remarkably retained their star power. Coming off Oscar noms for "Traffic" and "Erin Brockovich," director Steven Soderbergh chose to make a movie "with no social value whatsoever," but it has proven to have more value than anyone first gave it credit for. TheWrap has teamed up with IMDb to share 11 enthralling facts about the crime caper.