Steve Carell To Mastermind Silver Pictures Heist Script Conviction

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Carell is mounted on star in and convey Conviction, a heist film which was bought like a spec script 2 yrs ago by Warner Bros and Silver Pictures. The script by Jonathan Herman, which made the Black List, follows a mastermind bank thief who serves 5 years imprisonment carrying out a botched heist who's forced by an FBI agent to entrap his protege because the upstart pulls off a multimillion-dollar job. The initial script were built with a Warmth tone, however it delayed. It's being converted into an action comedy having a tone much like 48 Hrs and Sea’s Eleven, with Carell at its center. Joel Silver, that has had success with this particular type of factor with 48 Hrs and Lethal Weapon, will produce the film with Carell and Silver Pictures mind Andrew Rona. Silver Pictures’ Alex Heineman is going to be executive producer with Vance DeGeneres and Charlie Hartsock, that run Carell’s Warner Bros-based Slide carousel banner. They'll set a author to redraft the project. Carell’s repped by WME and Media Four.