Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) Developing Thriller Based on Lee Murray's Infamous Heist

by I Can't Feel My Face on Sep 22, 2009 1:26 AM EDT

At least six men were part of the heist, which was thought to be masterminded by UFC competitor "Lightning" Lee Murray. "The story is a very unique British heist tale with colorful London characters. I've always wanted to shoot in England and Kerry is the perfect writer to bring authenticity to this outrageous true bank job," said Aronofsky. Originally, the film was also going to focus on Murray's life.

It was only a matter of time. I love heist flicks, so I am pretty damn excited for this.

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FUCK YES

I remember the convo I had with people here on BE about how this needed to be a movie. Good director for it as well.

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by Kaleb Kelchner on Sep 22, 2009 1:40 AM EDT reply actions

Darren Aronofsky also directed Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain.

This should be fascinating, though I dislike his trend towards normal films – bring back the weirdness!

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by Scott C. Broussard on Sep 22, 2009 2:14 AM EDT reply actions

interesting to see where he’d take this story. he better do his robocop reboot first though! that has ridiculous potential written all over it.

by woooburn on Sep 22, 2009 7:55 AM EDT reply actions

Hopefully this will turn out good.

I actually loved the documentary done on this. It was really good.

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by dnevil001 on Sep 22, 2009 8:51 AM EDT reply actions

yeah, i was wikipedia-surfing last nite and read this, i guess it was just posted. the Lee Murray story is amazing to no end—you’d really have to fuck this up to make it bad (which seems to happen often with heist movies, i.e. Ocean’s Twelve, Heist, Entrapment, etc…)

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by Anthony Pace on Sep 22, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions