Matthew Lee tries out the King of Thieves Escape Room…
Escape rooms have really taken off among millennials and Gen Z’s in the last few years. The concept is generally pretty simple: solve clues, riddles, and puzzles to unlock certain parts of the room to advance to the next stage. Do this within 1 hour and you’re free to go.
So the notion of creating an escape room based on the British crime film King of Thieves makes sense.
For the uninitiated, King of Thieves is based on the true story of the Hatton Garden jewellery heist over Easter weekend in 2015. A band of aged-crooks, along with a young, tech-savvy insider, go for one last heist. Having stolen £200 millions worth of jewels, money, and gold billions, it is regarded as the biggest burglary in UK legal history. It is available now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download, and you can read our review of the film here.
It’s therefore wonderful to see Escape Entertainment create a King of Thieves-themed escape room to celebrate the film’s release on Blu-Ray, DVD, and VOD. Opening to the general public on Friday, 25th January, we were given a sneak-peak into how this looks.
This King of Thieves-themed escape room sees you and your team of crooks attempt to break into the vault to steal all the jewels and diamonds and get out before the guard returns. An essential teamworking game as there are a few puzzles that require more than one set of eyes to solve, so don’t be a lone wolf on this one. You and your team will truly need to be as thick as thieves to escape this mind-bender.
Check out some images here…
KING OF THIEVES is the incredible true story of the spectacular Hatton Garden diamond heist, the biggest and most daring in British history, humorously told through career best performances from a stellar cast; Sir Michael Caine (DUNKIRK, KINGSMAN), Jim Broadbent (SENSE OF AN ENDING, MOULIN ROUGE), Ray Winstone (THE DEPARTED, COLD MOUNTAIN), Michael Gambon (KING’S SPEECH, HARRY POTTER), Tom Courtenay (GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, GAMBIT) and Charlie Cox (THEORY OF EVERYTHING, STARDUST). KING OF THIEVES is written by Joe Penhall (THE ROAD, MINDHUNTER), directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh (MAN ON WIRE, THEORY OF EVERYTHING) and produced by BAFTA winning and Academy Award nominees Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (THEORY OF EVERYTHING, LES MISERABLES), alongside Ali Jaafar (THE IDOL) and Michelle Wright (7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE).
King of Thieves is available now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital.
Originally published January 24, 2019. Updated January 23, 2019.
