Oscar-nominated actor Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, The Town) is reportedly attached to the film adaptation of J. North Conway’s novel King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America. He’ll play George Leslie, who went to New York, put together a crew and pulled off a heist of nearly $3 million in cash and securities from the Manhattan Savings Institution in 1878. Conway’s novel tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie — a society architect and ladies’ man whose double life as the nation’s most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the “King of the Bank Robbers.”
Black Bear Pictures optioned the book and plans to finance the development and production. Renner is producing the film along with his The Combine partner Don Handfield and Black Bear Pictures’ Teddy Schwarzman. Will Staples has written the screenplay but no director is attached to the project as yet.
Renner has been very busy lately; he will be starring alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, with Gemma Arterton in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, playing Hawkeye in Joss Whedon’s all-star Marvel Comics movie The Avengers, and he is currently filming The Bourne Legacy with Edward Norton and Rachel Weisz.
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