DEN OF THIEVES (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Gerard Butler (Gods of Egypt), Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Get Rich or Die Tryin’), Pablo Schreiber (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), O’Shea Jackson Jr (Straight Outta Compton), Evan Jones (8 Mile), Cooper Andrews (Death of Seasons), Maurice Compte (End of Watch), Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau (Born Bad), Lloyd Banks (Sleepless), Dawn Olivieri (The Last Witch Hunter), Lewis Tan (Red Velvet), Mo McRae (Gridiron Gang), Brian Van Holt (Bullet to the Head), Alix Lapri (Standing Up)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Christian Gudegast (film debut), director, writer, producer; Paul Scheuring (The Experiment), writer; Gerard Butler (Olympus Has Fallen), Mark Canton (Escape Plan), Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter), Alan Siegel (Law Abiding Citizen) and Tucker Tooley (Felon), producers; Cliff Martinez (Drive), composer; Terry Stacey (Adventureland), cinematographer; Joel Cox (Unforgiven), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Department, led by corrupt LAPD cop Nick Flanagan (Butler), intersect with the lives of members of a successful bank robbery crew, as the latter are planning a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Los Angeles…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Producer-star Gerard Butler leads an ensemble cast that pours everything they have into this gritty crime saga from A Man Apart and London Has Fallen screenwriter-cum-debut director Christian Gudegast.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2018

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