Ocean's Eleven

• Sanderson borrowed the heist structure: assembling a crew, planning an impossible job, assigning specialized roles, and executing the plan.
• The crew is composed of specialists with complementary skills, much like the ensemble in Ocean's Eleven.
• It introduced the conventions of the heist genre into epic fantasy.

Director Steven Soderbergh and the production team have noted using the high-tech, quiet vault infiltration mechanics from Brian De Palma's 1996 Mission: Impossible film as a structural blueprint for the high-wire laser grids and technical heists in Ocean's Eleven

The film follows and helps set the established caper formula of assembling criminals, planning a major robbery, and dealing with complications.