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Tuesday
22Sep2009

Darren Aronofsky Pulls Off a Heist Movie

DateTuesday, September 22, 2009 at 12:08AM
We'll start with the good news: Darren Aronofsky has signed up to direct and produce an adaptation of one of the most daring crimes of the century. In Tonbridge, Kent, a group of criminals lifted $85 million from a Securitas warehouse, although they didn't exactly get away with it.

Five people were convicted in January of last year in the largest cash theft in British history, but the story has lived on, and Variety says the film with Aronofsky's name on it will be adapted from a Sports Illustrated article called Breaking the Bank and Howard Sounes' book, Heist: The Inside Story of the World's Biggest Bank Robbery.

Tough to beat a good heist flick, really. We've been spoiled in that regard recently; both The Bank Job and Inside Man are great fun, and two-thirds of the Ocean's trilogy works, even though it's much lighter fare. Still, it's an ageless genre that doesn't need much in the way of reinvention.

And you have to like Aronofsky being on board for this. My mind immediately went to the same kind of paranoia we saw the characters experience in Requiem for a Dream and how that might play out for this cast in the months after the biggest cash robbery in the UK when their exteriors started to crack.

The only question is what this does to RoboCop. Aronofsky had already backed the project up so he could work on Black Swan with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. Could he be backing away from the camera completely on that one?

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