Darren Aronofsky, the award-winning director of Requiem for the Dream and The Wrestler, will direct a film based on the largest bank heist in UK believed to be masterminded by one-time UFC competitor Lee Murray.
Murray and a band of robbers allegedly broke into a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent in 2006, escaping with $92.5 million in cash.
"The story is a very unique British heist tale with colorful London characters," Aronofsky said in a statement. "I've always wanted to shoot in England and Kerry is the perfect writer to bring authenticity to this outrageous true bank job."
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Lee Murray's freedom was short-lived. The ex-UFC fighter who is one of the most wanted men in the UK for allegedly masterminding a $92 million cash depot heist in Tonbridge, has been re-arrested in Morocco following the hearing that refused his extradition.
Lee Murray, the onetime UFC fighter who allegedly masterminded the largest non-wartime cash heist in history, has been released from the Moroccan prison that has been holding him since his 2006 arrest, according to a report from ESPN The Magazine investigative writer Shaun Assael.
Fans of the British mixed martial arts promotion Cage Rage may remember this 2004 fight between Anderson Silva and Lee Murray.
Murray lost that fight by decision, and going the distance with Silva is an impressive feat, even though the decision was unanimous and the stats at Fight Metric say the fight wasn't very close.
But then Murray did something that will forever overshadow what he did in his short MMA career, which included an appearance at UFC 46: He orchestrated the largest cash heist in history.
There's a great article in this week's Sports Illustrated by L. Jon Wertheim that profiles Murray and explains the crime he committed, the Securitas depot robbery in Kent, England, which netted Murray and his accomplices more than 53 million pounds in cash, or about $100 million.
Murray fled England when his accomplices were caught and is currently in a Moroccan prison; his father is Moroccan, which automatically makes him a Moroccan citizen, and whether he'll be extradited to Great Britain is a matter of some dispute between the Moroccan and British governments. But what is clearly true is that Murray's MMA career is over. Wertheim's story is a great chronicle of his rise and fall.
Darren Aronofsky, the award-winning director of Requiem for the Dream and The Wrestler, will direct a film based on the largest bank heist in UK believed to be masterminded by one-time UFC competitor Lee Murray.
