Storming Las Vegas Movie Updates

Fri., Jul. 29, 2011

from Deadline

Summit Is 'Storming Las Vegas' With Antoine Fuqua

Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to John Huddy's non-fiction book Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down The Strip to the Tune of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars. Summit has attached Antoine Fuqua to direct, Lorenzo di Bonaventura to produce, an...

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• Jose Vigoa, a Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet army, and his crew embarked on a violent 16-month crime wave that targeted some of Las Vegas' most prominent casinos. He was pitted against a 23-year vet of the Vegas police force, who was charg... show all ed with tracking down Vigoa and his cohorts without letting the story make the papers and spoil Vegas's image.

• added Lorenzo di Bonaventura to the credits
• added Antoine Fuqua to the credits
• added Summit Entertainment as a distributor
• changed the production status to Development
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