According to Deadline Hollywood, Mythology Entertainment and Anyway Entertainment are partnering on a feature film version of the real-life story of Brian Douglas Wells’ bank robbery attempt that ended tragically. Last year, 30 Minutes or Less drew comparisons because both stories featured bomb-strapped pizza delivery man being forced to rob a bank. In the true story, the bomb goes off. That and the rest of the details of the bizarre crime will be released when “Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery” hits shelves from authors Gerard Clark and Ed Palettella. The production companies involved also snagged life rights to many of the people involved and plan on calling the film Collar Bomb Heist. Terrible, awful, no good name aside, this movie can’t possibly be an easy one to make. It involves an intricate, strangely-motivated plot as well as an ending that has to be handled just right. Plus...
- 8/30/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Mythology Entertainment, the production company behind Roland Emmerich's White House Down, have recently secured the feature film rights to the rather curious and very tragic true story of a 2003 bank robbery that went very much awry. "Known by the FBI as 'Collarbomb, Major Case #203,' the incident began when Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells entered a bank and told the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to...
- 8/30/2012
- by Alejandro Stepenberg
- JoBlo.com
The story of the Pizza Bomber is a strange and tragic one.
In 2003 a pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells walked into a bank with a contraption locked around his neck.
The contraption was a bomb.
Wells told the bank teller that he had to rob the bank or else the collarbomb would explode.
The pizza man was presumably the innocent victim of some sinister third-party heist plan.
When Wells walked outside the bank, money in hand, the collarbomb went off. The man was killed instantly.
And as it turned out — he was not innocent. Wells was a willing participant in the heist.
The collarbomb going off? A complete accident.
A book detailing the botched robbery entitled Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery has been picked up for a feature film adaptation.
Mythology Entertainment and Anyway Entertainment have additionally secured the life rights...
In 2003 a pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells walked into a bank with a contraption locked around his neck.
The contraption was a bomb.
Wells told the bank teller that he had to rob the bank or else the collarbomb would explode.
The pizza man was presumably the innocent victim of some sinister third-party heist plan.
When Wells walked outside the bank, money in hand, the collarbomb went off. The man was killed instantly.
And as it turned out — he was not innocent. Wells was a willing participant in the heist.
The collarbomb going off? A complete accident.
A book detailing the botched robbery entitled Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery has been picked up for a feature film adaptation.
Mythology Entertainment and Anyway Entertainment have additionally secured the life rights...
- 8/30/2012
- by Matt Granados
- LRMonline.com
To paraphrase the great Michael Keaton, “You want to get nuts, Crime Heads? Let’s get nuts.”
By which I mean, of course, let’s talk true crime.
Now you may be thinking, “How is non-fiction nuttier than the made-up stuff?” And if you are thinking that, I hope your head wound heals up well. For the rest of us who have accepted the old cliché that truth is stranger than fiction as gospel, you know where I’m coming from.
You know that a story of a pizza delivery man who chains a bomb to himself so that he can pose as a hostage and rob a bank, only to be blown up by his own bomb, is not beyond the realm of possibility. You know, in fact, that such a story isn’t even unusual – at least, not in the definitive sense. A story like the Pizza Bomber,...
By which I mean, of course, let’s talk true crime.
Now you may be thinking, “How is non-fiction nuttier than the made-up stuff?” And if you are thinking that, I hope your head wound heals up well. For the rest of us who have accepted the old cliché that truth is stranger than fiction as gospel, you know where I’m coming from.
You know that a story of a pizza delivery man who chains a bomb to himself so that he can pose as a hostage and rob a bank, only to be blown up by his own bomb, is not beyond the realm of possibility. You know, in fact, that such a story isn’t even unusual – at least, not in the definitive sense. A story like the Pizza Bomber,...
- 8/30/2012
- by Matthew C. Funk
- Boomtron
The comedy 30 Minutes or Less from Ruben Fleishcer wasn't exactly a box office hit (the film barely made back its budget), but apparently the real-life story, which the screenwriters admitted to being vaguely aware of before writing the movie, is good enough to warrant a different spin on the plot. Deadline has word that Mythology Entertainment (producing Roland Emmerich's White House Down) and Anyway Entertainment have snagged the rights to Gerald Clark and Ed Palattella's upcoming book Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America’s Most Shocking Bank Robbery, which chronicles the real crime from a dramatic angle. Read on! Clark is a former FBI special agent while Palattella is a journalist who teamed with him to write the book about the case that the FBI came to call Collarbomb. In Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells was supposedly forced to enter a bank and...
- 8/29/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Although the filmmakers behind last year’s comedy 30 Minutes or Less initially claimed they had no knowledge of the true-life story of a pizza delivery man who was forced to rob a bank after an explosive device was tied to him, they finally admitted some faint recognition. Considering their story also followed a pizza delivery man who was forced to rob a bank after an explosive device was tied to him, they maybe should have come forward a bit sooner but regardless, another take on the story is in the works.
In that 2003 event of Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells, the bomb, strapped around his neck, actually exploded after he exited the bank and instantly killed the man, which caused further controversy regarding the light, comedic take that Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer went with. But now Deadline reports the event will be getting dramatic treatment, as...
In that 2003 event of Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells, the bomb, strapped around his neck, actually exploded after he exited the bank and instantly killed the man, which caused further controversy regarding the light, comedic take that Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer went with. But now Deadline reports the event will be getting dramatic treatment, as...
- 8/29/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Mythology Entertainment and Anyway Entertainment have secured screen rights to an upcoming book that details an unbelievable and ultimately disastrous 2003 bank robbery. Known by the FBI as Collarbomb, Major Case #203,” the incident began when Erie, Pa. pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells entered a bank and told the teller he’d been shackled with an explosive device around his neck and forced to pull off a heist. The bomb went off as Wells exited, surrounded by cops, and it killed him instantly. While investigating the crime after his grisly death, the FBI ultimately discovered that Wells was not an innocent victim but a co-conspirator unaware that a real bomb would be involved for the actual heist. The alleged mastermind of the intricate plot was Marjorie Diehl Armstrong who is currently serving life in prison plus thirty years. The film will be based on Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of...
- 8/29/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Livonia, Mich. teenager who allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend and mother before taking his own life on Wednesday has left a disturbing trail of internet posts in his wake.
Detroit News (via Fox News) reports that Brian Douglas White was obsessed with "American Psycho" and and posted brooding lyrics on his Facebook page, which has since been deleted.
Among the lyrics White posted was a line from "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. "You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness," White posted.
He also posted a line from Blue October's song "Hate Me," a macabre record that begins with a mother calling her son to check in on how he's faring and to "see if you were checking in on your medications."
"And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave," read the line White posted. "Kicking shadows on...
Detroit News (via Fox News) reports that Brian Douglas White was obsessed with "American Psycho" and and posted brooding lyrics on his Facebook page, which has since been deleted.
Among the lyrics White posted was a line from "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. "You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness," White posted.
He also posted a line from Blue October's song "Hate Me," a macabre record that begins with a mother calling her son to check in on how he's faring and to "see if you were checking in on your medications."
"And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave," read the line White posted. "Kicking shadows on...
- 4/6/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The Livonia teen who police say brutally attacked and killed his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, her mom and then himself left a series of haunting messages on his Facebook page in the weeks leading up to the massacre.
Brian Douglas White, 19, entered the home of his 17-year-old ex wielding an axe on Wednesday and killed the girl's mother, Angela Staperfene and the girl's current boyfriend, 19-year-old Jacob Burns, while they slept, according to Fox affiliate Wjbk-tv.
The station obtained disturbing messages that White left on his Facebook page in the weeks before, including apparent references to the gory thriller "American Psycho" and lyrics by the bands Gotye and Blue October.
"You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness," White wrote on his page, which has since been taken down.
"What a polite murderer," the station quoted him as writing on March 27.
On March 29, he reportedly wrote, "And with a...
Brian Douglas White, 19, entered the home of his 17-year-old ex wielding an axe on Wednesday and killed the girl's mother, Angela Staperfene and the girl's current boyfriend, 19-year-old Jacob Burns, while they slept, according to Fox affiliate Wjbk-tv.
The station obtained disturbing messages that White left on his Facebook page in the weeks before, including apparent references to the gory thriller "American Psycho" and lyrics by the bands Gotye and Blue October.
"You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness," White wrote on his page, which has since been taken down.
"What a polite murderer," the station quoted him as writing on March 27.
On March 29, he reportedly wrote, "And with a...
- 4/6/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
In 2003, high school dropout, Brian Douglas Wells, was working as a pizza delivery man at the Mama Mia Pizzeria in Erie, Pennsylvania when on August 28 he was sent on a delivery that ended at a TV transmission tower site. There he received instructions to rob a bank while wearing a bomb handcuffed to his neck.
He went to the bank and, instead of getting the $250,000 he asked for, walked out with only $8,702 and a Dum Dum lollipop he grabbed from the counter.
Upon completion of this task he began a scavenger hunt to gain the information necessary to remove the bomb from his neck before the kitchen timer expired and blew up. He made it to the first clue, but before he could go any further he was apprehended by the police. The bomb subsequently exploded on national television, killing him while he and the police waited for the bomb squad to show up.
He went to the bank and, instead of getting the $250,000 he asked for, walked out with only $8,702 and a Dum Dum lollipop he grabbed from the counter.
Upon completion of this task he began a scavenger hunt to gain the information necessary to remove the bomb from his neck before the kitchen timer expired and blew up. He made it to the first clue, but before he could go any further he was apprehended by the police. The bomb subsequently exploded on national television, killing him while he and the police waited for the bomb squad to show up.
- 8/8/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Adam Lambert may release "What Do You Want From Me" as the first single from his forthcoming studio album. The report emerges soon after DJ Brian Douglas from Cincinatti's Q102 FM wrote on his blog, "I spoke with Adam's record company today and we will have a brand new song written by Pink and Max Martin."
"It is not the song from the '2012' movie. As soon as I get my hands on it we will put it on the air," the radio personality continued. "I was told today we will have it by Monday at the latest but sometimes these things change."
Previously, Adam told Entertainment Weekly about "What Do You Want From Me". He said, "It works on a relationship level, but I also relate to the sense of talking to the public. Like, 'This whole thing's a little freaked out,' but please have faith in...
"It is not the song from the '2012' movie. As soon as I get my hands on it we will put it on the air," the radio personality continued. "I was told today we will have it by Monday at the latest but sometimes these things change."
Previously, Adam told Entertainment Weekly about "What Do You Want From Me". He said, "It works on a relationship level, but I also relate to the sense of talking to the public. Like, 'This whole thing's a little freaked out,' but please have faith in...
- 10/27/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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