Peter Allen, a screenwriter born and raised in Baltimore, hits the big time with his new film featuring some of Hollywood's and the rap world's top stars.
"Veteran filmmaker Peter Allen is living the life many screenwriters dream about: his movie, "Takers" seems destined to be a bona fide 2010 summer blockbuster.
The movie stars red-hot actors Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana, hip-hop superstar Tip "T.I." Harris and controversial crooner Chris Brown, and is about a group of slick bank robbers who go all out to pull off a $20 million heist. The movie is scheduled to be released nationwide Aug. 27.
Allen, one of the film's co-writers, says he wanted to present a different vision of high stakes criminals. "Why can't they be gentlemen, why can't they be slick, why can't they be smart like some of the guys I have read about and know about," Allen told the
AFRO in a phone interview from Los Angeles."
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