J.C. Chandor To Remake German Crime Thriller Adaptation, THE ROBBER
Director J.C. Chandor’s 80’s-set 2014 crime drama, A Most Violent Year, didn’t carry a lot of weight at the box office, a primarily unfair fact given its heavy support among critics by and large. That said, fans of Chandor’s work can expect more in the coming year with updates pending for his next venture, The Robber, based on author Martin Prinz’s Austrian 2002 novel and subsequent 2010 adaptation with director and co-writer Benjamin Heisenberg. FilmNation Entertainment, who backed Chandor’s 2014 film are reteaming with the director to finance and sell worldwide. Writer Chase Palmer will adapt the screenplay inspired by Heiseburg’s own iteration of Prinz’s book which, in turn, was loosely inspired by the real life story of a talented marathon runner who cunningly used races to cloak his bank robberies, several of which are listed in his innumerate crimes, including murder. via The Wrap: “Growing the scope and scale […]