The ‘Den Of Thieves’ Trailer Is Like ‘Heat’ With Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler, who can currently be seen fighting the weather inGeostorm, has yet another film on the horizon. InDen of Thieves, Butler is an unorthodox cop chasing after a team of robbers. It’s sort of like heat, but instead of Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, we get Gerard Butler andCurtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Watch theDen of Thievestrailer below.
In Michael Mann’s crime classicHeat, audiences were treated to an epic tale of cops and robbers, cutting back and forth between Al Pacino as a cop on the edge and Robert De Niro as the head of a crew of highly successful bank robbers. Mann was able to adeptly wave a narrative that showed us two different yet similar worlds. If you ever watched Mann’sHeatand thought, “This movie is pretty good, but what itreallyneeds is some Gerard Butler!”, you’re in luck! The new filmDen of Thievesalmost looks like a modern-day remake ofHeat, with Butler stepping into Al Pacino’s role of a frazzled, on-edge cop tracking a crew of professional criminals. Let’s all watch the trailer, shall we?
Den of Thieves trailer
The highlight from the trailer (for me at least) has to be Butler chewing on a toothpick and mumbling, “Whoever it is, they’re addicted to heists!” Really though, whoisn’taddicted to heists, am I right? They’re irresistible. Butler is joined in the cast byPablo Schreiber(American Gods),O’Shea Jackson Jr.(Straight Outta Compton),Brian van Holt(House of Wax), and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. I’m assuming 50 Cent is stepping into the De NiroHeatrole here, and maybe Jackson is taking over the part played by Val Kilmer.Den of Thievesmarks the directorial debut ofChristian Gudegast, who wrote the screenplay for Butler’sLondon Has Fallen.Here’s the officialDen of Thievessynopsis:
A Los Angeles crime saga in the vein of “Heat”, DEN OF THIEVES follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.
WillDen of Thievesbe as memorable asHeat? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say no, but it’ll probably be entertaining. At the very least, Butler is clearly having a good time hamming it up and letting his beard do most of the heavy lifting, so that’s something.
