The Smash & Grab Inspiration List · 1:57pm Aug 23rd, 2018
When I write a lot of my stories, they're usually inspired by various things that I've watched, read, or encountered. "Smash & Grab" and the subsequent planned stories have plenty of these and I thought I'd share them with you, because dammit, more people need exposure to heist stories.
Movies
Ocean's 11 (1960)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ocean's Twelve
Ocean's Thirteen
Ocean's Eight
Tower Heist
The Pink Panther (1964)
Return of the Pink Panther
Entrapment
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Ant-Man (Yes, Ant-Man IS a heist movie.)
The Sting
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
The Hot Rock
The Italian Job (2003)
Television
Leverage
The Middleman
Where On Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Anime
Lupin the 3rd
Bubblegum Crisis
Case Closed/Detective Conan
Lupin the 3rd vs Detective Conan (The Special and the Movie)
Books
"The Hot Rock" by Donald E. Westlake
"Callahan's Con" by Spider Robinson
"King Con" by Stephen J. Cannell
Music
"It's Payday" by Simon Viklund
These are just off the top of my head. I may add more later as they come to me.
Awesome inspiration list
Hooray for Leverage! And I almost had a heart attack when I saw "Ocean's 11 (1960)." I had no idea Oceans Eleven was a remake, and I was like, no way that movie is that old!
Tower Heist is one I keep forgetting I want to see.