The Hollywood Reporter: Sony Developing Real-Life Crime Thriller 'Storming Las Vegas' (Exclusive)

The Hollywood Reporter: Sony Developing Real-Life Crime Thriller ‘Storming Las Vegas’ (Exclusive)

September 21st, 2018

‘Shutter Island’ author Dennis Lehane is adapting the story.

Sony is in development of real-life casino robbery movie Storming Las Vegas.

Dennis Lehane has been hired to adapt the 2008 book, from John Huddy, that looks at a series of daring Las Vegas casino robberies masterminded by Jose Vigoa.

Over the span of 16 months, the Cuban-born Vigoa and his crew evaded police as they stole millions from some of the biggest players on the strip — MGM Grand, the Desert Inn, Mandalay Bay, Bellagio and New York-New York — through robberies of armored trucks and casino heists. Lt. John Alamshaw (a 23-year police veteran) was in charge of Vegas’ robbery detectives, and was tasked with bringing Vigoa to justice.

Storming Las Vegas was previously set up at Summit Entertainment with Antoine Fuqua attached to direct.

Lehane is best known as the author of the novels behind films such as Shutter Island, Mystic River and Live by Night. He is repped by CAA, Echo Lake and Hansen Jacobson.

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Small Mercies

In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart.

One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances.

The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched—asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business.

Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.

September 21st, 2018

‘Shutter Island’ author Dennis Lehane is adapting the story.

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