Jeremy Renner To Play The King Of Heists

Toldya are reporting that Jeremy Renner has signed on for yet another movie to add to The Avengers, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Bourne Legacy and Hansel & Gretel. I guess he's looking to match that run Jude Law had a few years back.

The film is an adaption of the true crime book 'King of Heists' by J. North Conway and tells the tale of George Leslie who rocked up in New York in 1878 as a gentleman who was a bit of charmer and Ladies man, but in truth he was a mastermind behind several bank robberies and had come to New York to pull of the Heist to end all heists.

I think this is a good pick for Renner amongst the fantasy and espionage projects. I love a heist movie and the period setting along with the fact it's based on true events really put this one on my "Movies to follow" list.

Here is a synopsis of the book from Amazon:

Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie - a society architect and ladies' man whose double life as the nation's most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the King of the Bank Robbers. "The New York Times" proclaimed the 1878 heist the most sensational in the history of bank robberies in this country. An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, "King of Heists" blends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction.