The King of Thieves
Synopsis
Developed from Mark Seal's Vanity Fair piece 'The Over the Hill Mob', the film tells the story of the epic multi-million-pound robbery initially believed to be undertaken by a gang of super-thieves. The actual perpetrators were a group of tough-guy retired criminals in their late 60s and 70s — with all kinds of physical maladies — who were mostly unoccupied and bored, until they consulted a bunch of how-to books and figured out a way to pull off one last hurrah over a long weekend in April 2015.
Entering the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company property via a lift shaft, they drilled through the 50cm thick vault walls with heavy machinery and escaped with a haul estimated to be worth around £200 million.
Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 108 mins
- Director
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James Marsh
- Producer
- Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Ali Jaafar, Michelle Wright
- Executive Producer
- Didier Lupfer, Jenny Borgars, Danny Perkins
- Editor
- Jinx Godfrey, Nick Moore
- Screenwriter
- Joe Penhall (screenplay), Mark Seal (magazine article), Duncan Campbell (source material)
- Director of Photography
- Danny Cohen
- Music
- Benjamin Wallfisch
- Principal cast
- Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, Jim Broadbent, Charlie Cox, Paul Whitehouse, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
A Working Title Films production with support from StudioCanal
Working Title Films
26 Aybrook StreetLondon
W1U 4AN
Sales Company
StudioCanal
1, Place du Spectacle92130 Issy les Moulineaux
France
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