Jeremy Renner zal de hoofdrol spelen in King of Heists, een kraakfilm gebaseerd op het gelijknamige non-fictieboek uit 2010 van J. North Conway. De officiële synopsis van het boek, dat als ondertitel "The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 that Shocked America" meekreeg, luidt als volgt:
"King of Heists" is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities around $50 million in todays terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie a society architect and ladies man whose double life as the nations most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the King of the Bank Robbers.
Renner zal het criminele meesterbrein Leslie vertolken. Nieuwkomer Will Staples zal het scenario schrijven voor de film.
King of Heists is het zoveelste ambitieuze project voor Renner, die binnenkort ook al te zien is in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Avengers en The Bourne Legacy, stuk voor stuk films met franchise-potentieel.
"King of Heists" is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities around $50 million in todays terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie a society architect and ladies man whose double life as the nations most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the King of the Bank Robbers.
Renner zal het criminele meesterbrein Leslie vertolken. Nieuwkomer Will Staples zal het scenario schrijven voor de film.
King of Heists is het zoveelste ambitieuze project voor Renner, die binnenkort ook al te zien is in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Avengers en The Bourne Legacy, stuk voor stuk films met franchise-potentieel.
