EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, Happy Go Lucky) and Éanna Hardwicke (Lakelands, The Sixth Commandment) are set to star in upcoming Irish thriller No Ordinary Heist, inspired by the largest cash heist in UK and Irish history.
Colin McIvor (Zoo) will direct from a script he co-wrote with debut screenwriter Aisling Corristine with filming expecting to begin in January across locations in Dublin and Belfast.
Inspired by true events that took place in Belfast in December 2004, No Ordinary Heist weaves a gripping fictional tale of two bank employees thrust into a chilling scheme.
Forced to orchestrate a £26.5M ($33.8M) robbery to save their family, they are made to execute the crime without the gang ever stepping foot inside the bank.
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