Director David Leitch's How To Rob A Bank, starring Nicholas Hoult, is set to hit theatres next week, and the film has already garnered much positive appreciation from audiences following its international release. In fact, the heist film's producers, Allan Mandelbaum and Kelly McCormick, knew its potential the moment they read the screenplay.
Speaking about it, McCormick shared, "It was almost a week later, after we first read it, I said to David, I can’t stop thinking about that script. And he was like, You know, me either. There’s something about it, isn’t there?"
McCormick and Leitch found the film's prospects to go beyond genre trappings even as it remained true to their ambitions. "We were thinking about the sort of energy behind that frustration people are feeling," said McCormick. "Was there something to this script? And could we be part of that conversation in a way that felt very 87North, that felt very David Leitch-ian – that it could be fun and wild, but also put a message forward – be part of an important conversation our society is having right now, and strike a chord that so many people are feeling today?"
Meanwhile, Mandelbaum added, "David and Kelly and what they’ve built at 87North – it’s undeniable. They have really found a way to tap into mainstream culture and audiences in a way that very few filmmakers do. They have their finger on the pulse of the culture and what audiences respond to."
How To Rob A Bank begins as a series of bank robberies that are streamed live before eventually becoming a chase film, with an FBI agent and a software engineer on the robbers' trail.
Writer Mark Biancull's film also stars Zoe Kravitz, Rhenzy Feliz, Anna Sawai, Christian Slater, John C Reilly, and Pete Davidson.
An Amazon MGM Studios production, the film is set to hit theatres through distributor Sony Pictures Releasing International next Friday.
