• Here Comes the Flood

  • Simon Kinberg
  • Unrepped
  • Thriller
  • 2020
  • 90.7
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Market: Wed, 06 May 2020Sold: Fri, 08 May 2020
Producer: Audrey Chon, Simon Kinberg
StudioNetflix
ProductionGenre Films
Per Deadline, Netflix won a ferocious auction, mid seven figures, an extremely high amount for a script that has no talent attached to it. Simon is normally repped by Joe Cohen, Praveen Pandian, and Tiffany Ward at CAA, though its unclear if they negotiated this sale.
An elevated, character-driven love-story heist movie, with the heist playing out in increments.
As seen in incremental snapshots, a troubled war-veteran's planned heist on a bank is complicated by his love for one of the bank tellers.
An ex-army man is recruited to rob a bank, but his past threatens to interfere with the job.
A romantic heist movie about a war veteran committing a bank robbery with a crime group but he’s met with one obstacle---his lover who happens to be the bank reteller.
When a US veteran is down on his luck, a skilled bank robber invites him to take part in a heist he’s planning.
Film
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Heist, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Criminal, Dating, Love
125
PG-13
High
M
Unspecified
30
Attractive
Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, Dog Day Afternoon, True Romance (1993), American Hustle (2013), Entrapment (1999), Baby Driver (2017), Pulp Fiction (1994)
Present Day/Various Years/Couple of Weeks
Heist Prep Room, Grocery Store, Military Base (Jordan), Sideeq Square (Jordan), The Fancy Bank, City Street, Cuban Restaurant, Rose's Apartment, Bar, Anderson's Apartment, Military Court, Expensive Restaurant
A wealthy and confident CARTER (50s) has recruited NOAH (30s), young but deferential, in his group. They plan to rob a fancy bank.

The other members of the group are GABRIEL (40s) a former computer programmer, LOGAN (30s) a former cop, and OAKLYNN (40s) a professional woman thief.

Gabriel maps five ways to get out, but Noah has worked at the bank and he insists that there are six.

Months earlier, Rose (20s), a woman who has worked for every inch the world has given her, shops at a grocery store. A cocky man flirts with her, and Noah who works at the store, comes to her rescue. Later, Noah gets into her car and she makes him listen to a song. Rose works at a bank and wants to be a professional singer.

We flashback to Noah in the army. He’s the captain and they’re in Jordan. After a Daesh activity tip from his girlfriend SADEEN, Noah follows with his troop. But Sadeed suicide bombs. She’s part of ISIS.

Back to present, Noah sits in an interview for a security guard. The imperious bank manager ANDERSON WEBB (late 40s) recruits Noah. He then asks ROSALIND (Rose)...