Nicholas Hoult Teams Up with Director David Leitch in Untitled Bank Heist Movie

Nicholas Hoult is set to star in the Amazon MGM Studios, Imagine Entertainment and 87North’s untitled bank heist pic from director David Leitch. 

The high-profile action thriller will be released in theaters from a script by Mark Bianculli.

While plot details are being kept under wraps Leitch is known for delivering big thrills and fun set pieces movies like "Bullet Train", "Deadpool 2", and most recently "The Fall Guy". 

87North’s Kelly McCormick and Leitch will produce alongside Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, and Allan Mandelbaum.

The project has gained a ton of momentum in recent weeks after Leitch and McCormick boarded the project at the top of the year. Once the package hit the market, it wasn’t long before Amazon moved in to land the rights and the project soon began attracting high-profile talent with Hoult recently signing on to star with the plan to shoot later this summer.

Hoult is coming off quite a winter that started with starring in the Clint Eastwood pic "Juror #2". He would follow that up with his critically acclaimed role in "The Order" and then ended the year starring in the box-office hit "Nosferatu".

Next up he will portray Lex Luthor in James Gunn’s highly anticipated "Superman" this summer. His other notable film and television credits include Tony McNamara’s "The Favourite", the X-Men franchise, and "The Great", for which he earned both a SAG and Emmy nomination. 

Imagine Entertainment’s upcoming projects include "After the Hunt", a thriller for Amazon MGM directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, "The Gringo Hunters", a Spanish-language drama for Netflix, based on investigative reporting in the Washington Post, a Ron Howard-directed documentary on renowned photographer Richard Avedon, and a feature-length Barba Walters documentary.