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Miles Teller is attached to star in Universal’s adaptation of Josh Dean’s article “The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang”.
Teller has been nabbed for the lead with Ruben Fleischer attached to direct and Scott Stuber to produce.
The Wrap has the news, reporting that Universal has nabbed the rights to the article about a group of Canadian criminals who robbed North American banks in the 1980s. They are credited with robbing an estimated 100 banks, from which they stole roughly $10 million.
At this stage we don’t know which character Teller will play, but you can read about the gang’s story below in an exert taken from The Atavist.
“They were in and out in less than two minutes—that’s how they got away with millions. And for the duration of their reign, no bank robbers were more feared (though they never fired their guns) nor more pursued or more mythologized than the Stopwatch Gang. The members themselves were straight out of central casting: Lionel Wright, a meticulous introvert who could disappear in a room full of people; Paddy Mitchell, a charming and well-connected crook who saw an angle in everything and would go to any lengths to avoid the hell of being locked away; and Stephen Reid, a fearless point man who could find the weakness in any system and whose story—of addiction and descent into crime, of redemption and literary fame—was all prelude to a tragic but life-saving fall from grace.
“Josh Dean reconstructs the Gang’s glory days and reveals how the real story… is more remarkable than the myth that has long been told.”
