Darren Aronofsky Developing World’s Biggest Heist Movie

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/21/darren-aronofsky-developing-worlds-biggest-heist-movie/

 

[Bunker]

I'm waiting with bated breathe for this. I'll wait until it gets passed pre-production to get excited. I remember watching the story on E:60 a while ago. It would make for a damn good heist movie.

 

[Project862006]

I Say Cast Tom Hardy(Bronson) as Lightening Lee Murray

 

[The Guard]

What ISN'T Aronofsky developing?

 

[CelticPredator]

A baby?

 

[Poetic Chaos]

As long as this doesn't get in the way of Black Swan.

 

[bullets]

I Say Cast Tom Hardy(Bronson) as Lightening Lee Murray

Good call

 

[[A]]

As long as this doesn't get in the way of Black Swan.

You only care about Black Swan because of the lesbian sex

 

[Poetic Chaos]

You only care about Black Swan because of the lesbian sex

Absolutely

 

[[A]]

About the original story:

The Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. At least six men abducted and threatened the family of the manager, tied up fourteen staff members and stole £53,116,760 (about US$92.5 million at the time of the robbery) in bank notes from a Securitas Cash Management Ltd depot in Vale Road, Tonbridge, Kent.

The manager of the depot, Colin Dixon, was abducted at about 18:30 on 21 February, apparently while driving his Nissan Almera to his home in Herne Bay. He was pulled over on the A249 just outside Stockbury, a village North East of Maidstone, by what he thought was an unmarked police vehicle due to the blue lights behind the front grill. A man approached him in high-visibility clothing and a police-style hat. The manager proceeded to get into the police impostor's car, thinking that he was a police officer, where he was then handcuffed by others in the vehicle. He was then driven west on the M20 motorway to the West Malling bypass where he was bound further, transferred into a white van and transported to a farm in Staplehurst, Kent.

As this was taking place, the manager's wife and eight-year-old son were being held hostage at their home in Herne Bay, after they answered the door to men dressed in police uniforms, who falsely informed them that the manager had been involved in a road traffic accident. They were then driven to the farm at which the manager was being held, where he was told at gunpoint that failure to cooperate could put him and his family in danger.

The depot manager, his wife and son were taken to the Securitas depot in Tonbridge at around 01:00, travelling in a plain white van, being held at gunpoint. At the depot, 14 members of staff were bound by robbers, armed with handguns and wearing balaclavas.

The robbery came to an end at approximately 02:45. The staff including Mr Dixon's wife and son were left locked in cash cages. However, Mr Dixon's son was small enough to be able to squeeze through the bars and free the others. It was still another half hour before staff members, who had been tied up, managed to raise the alarm. Police officers arriving on the scene discovered staff, the manager and his family, bound but physically unharmed.

The notes will be difficult to trace and link to the robbery because they are used notes and not newly printed, unlike the notes stolen in the Belfast robbery of 2004.

The Bank of England, to which the money belonged, was reimbursed £25 million by Securitas the same day, and has assured the public that Securitas will make up any additional loss.

In July 2007, Securitas announced that it intended to exit the Cash Management market and withdraw from the joint venture with Barclays and HSBC.

 

[The Guard]

I used to work for Securitas. Many moons ago. I vaguely remember this.

 

[[A]]

I used to work for Securitas. Many moons ago. I vaguely remember this.

..says The Guard, while posting from an undisclosed location.