Amazon MGM Studios has offered a first look at How to Rob a Bank, its new heist pic from Atomic Blonde and Bullet Train helmer David Leitch, starring Nicholas Hoult.
While the film’s logline has been kept under wraps to this point, we learned this evening at CinemaCon that it revolves, in star Pete Davidson‘s words, around “a crew of masked bank robbers who carry out daring heists and stream them live on social media — which may not be the best idea if you don’t want to get caught.”
Leitch described the robbers as modern-day Robin Hood figures fighting back against a rigged system, whose criminal activities are combatted by an FBI agent played by John C. Reilly and hacker played by Zoë Kravitz.
Davidson described the socially conscious action-thriller as “totally f*cking insane.” He and Leitch took the stage in Las Vegas following a number of motorcyclers wearing wolf masks, as the characters in the film do, as they threw cash into the CinemaCon audience and did acrobatics.
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In the footage played at CinemaCon, a masked Hoult tells his online following, “the success rate of armed robberies is 90%.” So if the odds are stacked against you in the real world, why not try your hand at it?
“Let’s make some content!” the character says.
Reilly’s FBI agent and his efforts to combat crime are subsequently introduced, as he tells his colleagues, “15 banks, 61 felonies, 30 million unique viewers. We have the full resources of the federal government, so put some f*cking pepper on it!”
The trailer builds up to a set-up: Reilly and Kravitz predict the masked robbers will hit one particular bank “because this one’s personal” — Hoult later tells a banker, played by Christian Slater, “Your bank killed my son” — and will aim to use that information to bring them down.
Mark Bianculli (Hunters, upcoming Cliffhanger reboot) penned the script for How to Rob a Bank, which also stars Anna Sawai and Rhenzy Feliz. 87North’s Kelly McCormick and Leitch produced alongside Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum, with Bianculli exec producing.
The film is slated for a Labor Day weekend release September 4 opposite Paramount’s recently acquired crime thriller By Any Means starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
