Danny Boyle Planning Another Heist - This Time, It's Diamonds
Having enjoyed his experience with Trance, Danny Boyle is set to take on the heist genre once again as he agrees to helm a movie adaption of the documentary, Smash & Grab. Pathe and Fox Searchlight will co-finance the movie that will see Boyle team up once again with his long-time producing partner, Christian Colsen, Variety report.
According to Variety, Boyle saw Smash & Grab and thought it was interesting - interesting enough to turn it into a movie. The Pink Panthers – the name Interpol gave the emphatic group of criminals – were renown for their diamond raids. In a timeframe of six years, the gang robbed 120 stores in 20 different countries, from Dubai to Geneva; from Japan to Paris.
Most recently, the Cannes jewellery heist hit the news, and the gang are suspected to have been involved. $136m worth of diamonds, gems and jewellery were stolen from the Carlton Hotel during the famous film festival. Their meticulous attention to detail was what won them success; painting a bench opposite a store they were hitting to ensure no one sat on it and saw them do it, is one example.
Boyle had a good time with Trance; it did well at the box office and pleased the studio, but he won’t have been enamoured with the critical response, which saw the film settle on a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Compared to his standards, that perfectly reasonable score is a touch low. There were rumors that Warner Bros. was interested in Boyle for American Sniper before deciding on Western legend Clint Eastwood to direct.