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 Comment 11 comments

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 kyfm621 on Sep 22, 2009 1:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

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!

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett

by themachiavellian on Sep 22, 2009 2:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

is the fountain good? my gf bought it for a $1 last night but I wouldn’t watch it with her because it was football time so she said i had to watch it with her tuesday night but ima skip out on that unless its cool?

by Reaser16 on Sep 22, 2009 3:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

it depends. are you familiar with his other movies? it’s a bit odd, even for him. several stories happening on multiple timelines, without much traditional explanation. not my favorite work of his, but there’s some interesting effects work, and a few good performances.

by woooburn on Sep 22, 2009 7:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I liked it

but it is pretty confusing, and a bit out there. Cool story though, and there were plenty of moments where I really enjoyed the acting and effects.

A very different movie, for sure.

And come on… you cant take a couple hours to watch a movie with your girlfriend??

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The Packers, that’s who.
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by TheViking83 on Sep 22, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I watch EVERY sport possible, from Football to every soccer league to mma to boxing to aussie rules to rugby to womens tennis to F1 to Nascar, etc and etc…

an hour and a half to watch a movie I never heard of means having to DVR a live sporting event (or one of a million sports highlight/news shows) which isn’t how I do things, she knows whats what though, we’ll watch it tonight, start it around midnight, if it holds my interest watch the entire thing, if not she’ll know what time it is and we’ll do “that” instead…

by Reaser16 on Sep 22, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Personally, I love The Fountain, but it’s a headtrip, mind-fuck of a film.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett

by themachiavellian on Sep 22, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

thats all i needed to know, i’m down with mind-fuck movies…i like em usually….forgot sengoku was on tonight so promised girl, after TUF tomorrow we’ll watch that movie…and she keeps yelling in my ear to say thanks to themachiavellian for saying the movie is good so that i’ll “finally” do something with her…hah

by Reaser16 on Sep 23, 2009 5:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 Robert Downey Sr. on Sep 22, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs