The Bank Job is directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Roger Donaldson ("The Worlds Fastest Indian,” “The Recruit,” “Dante’s Peak”, and “Cocktail”), and produced by Steven Chasman (“Transporter 1 & 2”) and Charles Roven (“Batman Begins”). The Script was written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (“The Commitments”, “Still Crazy” “Porridge”) and is based on a true story about a bank robbery that happened at the Lloyds Bank on Baker Street in September 1971. The prime targets were the hundreds of personal safety deposit boxes in the vault which held undeclared wealth and secrets including a ledger of all the dealings between an underworld leader with corrupt police officials, photos of political and leading figures in compromising situations. Jason Statham (“Crank”, “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Snatch”) plays Terry Leather, an East End car dealer who is enticed by an old flame, Martine, to organise the raid by tunnelling from a shop two doors away. Martine was enlisted by the Secret Service, who were desperate to get hold of the illicit photographs.

While tunnelling into the bank, their radio chatter with the look-out on a nearby roof was overheard by a local radio ham who alerted the local police to the robbery. The police didn’t take him seriously until he released copies of the tapes to local radio. While the police were frantically trying to find the bank in question, searching hundreds of banks in the local area, the gang were escaping with their loot. Terry and his gang went on the run from the Police (good & bad), the Secret Service and unscrupulous owners of safety deposit boxes that were stolen. London in the early 1970’s was an energetic, diverse and changing City and we hope to capture all sides of it. We want to show the gap between the colourful glamorous life that Martine leads as a London fashion model, and Terry’s slightly shady life at the car dealership that he so desperately wants to escape from.