Hatton Garden Heist Drama in the Works

ITV has commissioned the four-part Hatton Garden, which will dramatize the 2015 jewelry and cash burglary that took place in the heart of London’s diamond district.

Co-written by Jeff Pope (Little Boy Blue, The Moorside, Appropriate Adult) and Terry Winsor (Hot Money, Danielle Cable: Eyewitness, Essex Boys), the drama will tell the inside story of how an elderly gang of career criminals pulled off the audacious heist. Timothy Spall will lead the cast, alongside Kenneth Cranham and Brian F. O’Byrne. Paul Whittington (Little Boy Blue, The Moorside, Cilla, Mrs Biggs) will direct.

ITV’s head of drama, Polly Hill, said: “After the critical acclaim of Little Boy Blue, we are delighted to commission Jeff Pope’s new drama, Hatton Garden. Jeff is a master at bringing these true stories to screen and these dramas have always been and continue to be an important part of ITV drama. I think the audience will be fascinated by this story and Jeff’s compelling dramatization of it.”

Jeff Pope, the head of factual drama at ITV Studios, which is producing the project, said: “This is one of the most high-profile crimes of the last decade and we wanted to understand what had happened—and why it had happened. The research threw up some fascinating detail and blew away many of the misconceptions about this story. It was not about a bunch of ‘lovable old blokes’—many box holders lost everything in the raid and we will reflect this. But the planning was clever and the characters involved unique.”