New Line Adapting Real-Life Robin Hood Story
May 24th, 2004
According to Variety, New Line Cinema and Beau Flynn/Tripp Vinson's Contrafilm, have joined forces on CONRAIL, the story of a real-life teenage Robin Hood. Chris Murphey will write the script. The high-speed thriller and coming-of-age pitch is based on the true story of Eddie Mongon, who spent a decade as the ringleader of a gang that robbed trains and shared the proceeds with the working-class poor of his hometown of Hoboken, N.J. Mongon led dozens of kids in a gang known as the Conrail Boyz, who used a combination of high-tech equipment and street smarts to steal millions of dollars in merchandise from freight trains, trucking companies and shipping outlets to sell it on the black market. After his parents, sister and girlfriend were arrested for money laundering and conspiracy, the 28-year-old Mongon surrendered to New Jersey authorities last July.
Source: Variety - Monday, May 24, 2004
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