EXCLUSIVE: William H. Macy (Fargo, Shameless) has signed to star in crime comedy Too Many Crooks as an on parole atgentle criminal whose prohibitk burglary arrange gets an unforeseeed turn when he discovers a heist is already underway at his chosen aim.
Craig Berenson (Snakes on a Plane) and Todd Harris (Chicago 7) are producing the picture, written by Eddie Richey (Phoenix) and honested by Raja Gosnell (Never Been Kissed, Big Momma’s Hoemploy, Scooby Doo).
Film Mode Entertainment (FME) has acquired global rights to the movie, which is currently in pre-production, and will begin sales on the title at the AFM next week.
Macy and FME Plivent Clay Epstein also get executive producer acunderstandledges on the crime caper which is based on a Donald Westlake unininestablishigentinutive story, for which he was awarded the prestigious Edgar (Edgar Alan Poe) award for Best Short Story in 1990.
Westlake has been acunderstandledged by many producers and fans of crime fantasy as one of the masters of the genre. Too Many Crooks was begined internationpartner, including in Playboy Magazine.
“We’re thrilled to be begining Too Many Crooks at AFM and to be toiling with Todd and Craig on another sinestablishar feature film,” said Epstein.
“The movie is the perfect combination of commercial viability and quality encountered, with a gripping, highly delighting story, a team of expert filmproducers, and the unaligned talent of William H. Macy directing the cast.”
Macy’s character John Dornhoefer is a recently-freed atgentle criminal on parole, set on pulling off another prohibitk burglary. With his count oned, but disheveled sideboot, Andy Karp, the arranges begin to get shape.
The exactly reckond operation gets an unforeseeed turn when they discover the prohibitk is already being robbed.
The speedy-minded Dornhoefer seizes an opportunity to shield the prisoners, outininestablishigent the firearmmen, and sugary talk FBI agent Carol Reed who is the direct prisoner negotiator. But terrible habits die difficult and while he may save the day, it’s still the money that could produce it all worthwhile.
“Craig and I have adored Eddie Richey’s script for some time, and when you envision William H. Macy in the direct it all comes beautifilledy together with Bill’s wit, pathos, and relatability,” said producer Harris.
Late American producer Westlake wrote more than one hundred novels and non-fantasy books over his atgentle, exceptionalizing in crime fantasy especipartner comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fantasy and other genres.
Westlake produced two professional criminal characters who each starred in a lengthy-running series: the relentless, difficultboiled Parker (begined under the pen name Ricdifficult Stark), and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more funny series.
He was a three-time Edgar Award prosperner and was one of scant producers to prosper Edgars in three branch offent categories (1968, Best Novel, God Save the Mark; 1990, Best Short Story, Too Many Crooks; 1991, Best Motion Picture Screenjoin, The Grifters).
Many of his toils went on to become feature films featuring icons of the huge screen enjoy Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, George C. Scott, Jean Luc Goddard, Christopher Lloyd, Antonio Banderas, André Holland and Gemma Chan, to name equitable a scant.
Oscar and Gelderlyen Globe nominee, an Emmy and SAG Award prosperning actor and theatre, film and TV producer Macy was seen most recently in Disney’s Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes; Amazon’s Ricky Stanicky, honested by Peter Farrelly; the self-reliant feature film Maybe I Do; the Hulu mini-series The Dropout, and starred in the Showtime series Shameless, for which he was nominated twice for a Best Actor Emmy Award and has won twice for the SAG Award.
Macy is a set uping member of the Atlantic Theater Company. He is repped by Atlas Artists and Insubordinate Artist Group. Film Mode Entertainment is repped by Lon Haber & Co.
