The Italian Job
The Italian Job is a 2003 American heist action thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray and starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def and Donald Sutherland. An American remake of the 1969 British film, the plot follows a motley crew of thieves who plan to steal gold from a former associate who double-crossed them. Despite the shared title, the plot and characters of this film differ from those of its source material; Gray described the film as "an homage to the original."
| Directed by | ||
| Produced by | ||
| Written by |
 written by
|
|
| Screenplay by |
|
|
| Story by |
story by
|
|
| Based on | ||
| Starring | ||
| Narrated by |
narrated by
|
|
| Music by | ||
| Cinematography | ||
| Edited by | ||
| Animation by |
animation by
|
|
| Layouts by |
layouts by
|
|
| Backgrounds by |
backgrounds by
|
|
| Color process |
color process
|
|
| Production company | ||
| Distributed by | ||
| Release date |
|
|
| Running time | 110 minutes
|
|
| Country | United States
|
|
| Language | English
|
|
| Budget | $60 million
|
|
| Box office | $176.1 million
|
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Type | | ||
| Class |
|
| |
| Theme |
|
| |
| Tone |
|
| |
| Mood |
|
|
- A MINI with two steering wheels was used for some of the shooting in order that a stunt driver could drive the car whilst one of the actors performed in front of the camera. This unusual car is now a part of the MINI factory tour in Cowley, Oxford.
- James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote the first draft of the screenplay, a fairly faithful translation of the original with a prologue set in World War II in which Charlie Croker's father tries and fails to recover the gold (tying the film in with Troy Kennedy-Martin's other heist film Kelly's Heroes (1970)). A new story was commissioned from writing team the Powers that relocated the action to L.A. Early posters and the trailer still credited Purvis and Wade as co-writers.
- For the first time in cinematic history, the production shut down Hollywood Boulevard and Highland for seven days for the shooting, according to director F. Gary Gray in an interview featured in the DVD.
- 32 Minis were used throughout the shooting.
- Screen writers Donna Powers and Wayne Powers say in an interview featured in the DVD that they hadn't watched the 1969 original movie before agreeing to write the script. After that, they only watched it once. This was on purpose because they didn't want to copy the movie, they wanted to make their own movie inspired by the original one.
More...
This page is the FamousFix profile for The Italian Job. Content on this page is contributed by editors who belong to our editorial community. We welcome your contributions... so please create an account if you would like to collaborate with other editor's in helping to shape this website.
On the The Italian Job page you will be able to add and update factual information, post media and connect this topic to other topics on the website. This website does skew towards famous actors, musicians, models and sports stars, however we would like to expand that to include many other interesting topics.