Anyway, McGregor will star in THE ELECTRIC SLIDE, about real-life Hollywood felon Eddie Dodson, who robbed 72 Los Angeles-area banks in the 1980s. Dodson became addicted to the thrill after pulling a job to impress a girlfriend, and was ultimately nailed by the FBI while doing a popular dance (though I might be misinterpreting).
Tristan Patterson will direct from his own script, adapted from a Gear magazine article called “The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World’s Great Bank Robber.” The girlfriend role is expected to be filled by Carey Mulligan, who coincidentally appears in another bank-robber movie, PUBLIC ENEMIES.