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Amazon MGM Studios has offered a first look astatine How to Rob a Bank, its caller heist pic from Atomic Blonde and Bullet Train helmer David Leitch, starring Nicholas Hoult.
While nan film’s logline has been kept nether wraps to this point, we learned this evening astatine CinemaCon that it revolves, successful prima Pete Davidson‘s words, astir “a unit of masked slope robbers who transportation retired daring heists and watercourse them unrecorded connected societal media — which whitethorn not beryllium nan champion thought if you don’t want to get caught.”
Leitch described nan robbers arsenic modern-day Robin Hood figures fighting backmost against a rigged system, whose criminal activities are combatted by an FBI supplier played by John C. Reilly and hacker played by Zoë Kravitz.
Davidson described nan socially conscious action-thriller arsenic “totally f*cking insane.” He and Leitch took nan shape successful Las Vegas pursuing a number of motorcyclers wearing wolf masks, arsenic nan characters successful nan movie do, arsenic they threw rate into nan CinemaCon assemblage and did acrobatics.
In nan footage played astatine CinemaCon, a masked Hoult tells his online following, “the occurrence complaint of equipped robberies is 90%.” So if nan likelihood are stacked against you successful nan existent world, why not effort your manus astatine it?
“Let’s make immoderate content!” nan characteristic says.
Reilly’s FBI supplier and his efforts to combat crime are subsequently introduced, arsenic he tells his colleagues, “15 banks, 61 felonies, 30 cardinal unsocial viewers. We person nan afloat resources of nan national government, truthful put immoderate f*cking capsicum connected it!”
The trailer builds up to a set-up: Reilly and Kravitz foretell nan masked robbers will deed 1 peculiar slope “because this one’s personal” — Hoult later tells a banker, played by Christian Slater, “Your slope killed my son” — and will purpose to usage that accusation to bring them down.
Mark Bianculli (Hunters, upcoming Cliffhanger reboot) penned nan book for How to Rob a Bank, which besides stars Anna Sawai and Rhenzy Feliz. 87North’s Kelly McCormick and Leitch produced alongside Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, and Allan Mandelbaum, pinch Bianculli exec producing.
The movie is slated for a Labor Day play merchandise connected September 4 other Paramount’s precocious acquired crime thriller By Any Means starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
