Variety has revealed that Miles Teller (Insurgent, Fantastic Four) is set to star in The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang for director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad).
Universal Pictures is in the final stages of negotiating a deal to secure the rights to a Stopwatch Gang article published by Atavist and written by Josh Dean, which “profiles the bank robbers dubbed ‘the Stopwatch Gang’ because of how quickly they pulled off their heists. Although they never once fired a shot, the group stole millions and became the most feared and pursued bank robbers of the 1980s.”
Fleischer and Teller are both set to produce the film alongside Scott Stuber, producer behind such films as Ted 2 and the now-filming Matthew McConaughey-starrer Free State of Jones.
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Originally published March 12, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
