Director David Leitch’s How To Rob A Bankstarring 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?”