Release Date: 2006-03-24
Wide Release
Distributors: Universal Pictures
Directors: Spike Lee
Actors : Ashlie Atkinson, Chjwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Plummer, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Jodie Foster, Peter Frechette, Peter Gerety, Willem Dafoe
Status:
Film Genre(s): Crime
United States
SYNOPSIS
The movie will centre on a tense hostage situation at a bank where a tough cop must match wits with a clever bank robber who sets out to pull off the perfect bank robbery.PREVIEW NOTES
- The Hollywood Reporter reports that producer Brian Grazer has taken out an option on a script with plans for Ron Howard to direct it. - 2002-08-22
- The Hollywood Reporter reports that Menno Meyjes is in negotiations with Universal Pictures/Imagine to direct the project. - 2003-06-16
- BlackFilm.com reports that Denzel Washington and Spike Lee will be working on the project together with production set to begin in June. - 2005-04-05
- The Hollywood Reporter reports that Clive Owen is in negotiations to join the movie. - 2005-04-06
- Variety reports that Jodie Foster will star in the pic as a well-connected lawyer/power broker who is brought in to represent certain behind-the-scenes interests, complicating an already tense standoff. - 2005-04-18
- BlackFilm.com reports that Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Plummer, Peter Gerety, Peter Frechette, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Darryl 'Chill" Mitchell and Ashlie Atkinson have joined the cast. - 2005-06-24.
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
