The Italian Job

On the data. THERE IS NO CONTINUITY ANYWHERE IN THIS FRANCHISE. Three films tell the same scheme three times from scratch. Nothing carries forward, nobody is related to anybody, and the 1969 cliffhanger has never been resolved on screen by anything. The only ordering argument is the spoiler one, and it points at 1969 first. WHAT THE 2003 FILM IS, IN THE WORDS OF PEOPLE WHO SAW IT. Every source agrees it derives from 1969 and none calls it a sequel, so the substance is settled and only the vocabulary moves. Britannica and Variety say remake flatly. Rotten Tomatoes says a modern take. Wikipedia says inspired by, with an original story. James Berardinelli called it less a straightforward remake than a complete reinterpretation. Film Freak Central called it the very definition of a perfunctory remake. Roger Ebert avoided the word and noted that the Mini Coopers are one of the few points of similarity, having been reintroduced in time for the product placement. F. Gary Gray himself calls it an homage. THE 1969 ENDING, AND WHY NOTHING ON THIS PAGE ANSWERS IT. Producer Michael Deeley chose the teetering coach deliberately to leave room for a sequel, and has described the intended opening, with helicopters lifting the bus clear before the Mafia pushes it into a ravine. That sequel was never made. In 2008 the Royal Society of Chemistry ran a public competition to solve it and drew about two thousand entries; the winner involved draining the fuel, deflating the tyres and swapping the gold for rocks. Michael Caine has offered a bleaker version in which the gold goes over. None of it is canon. The film resolves nothing and that is the point of it. TWO SEQUELS WERE ATTEMPTED AND NEITHER EXISTS. The Brazilian Job ran from roughly 2004 to 2010: David Twohy's script was converted into an Italian Job sequel, filming was set for March 2005 and then slid year by year, Charlize Theron was reported signed in 2009, and Seth Green called the whole thing a wonderful myth of IMDb in 2010 because it sat listed as in production while nothing happened. It is dead. Separately, on 9 September 2026 Deadline and the Hollywood Reporter reported Paramount developing a new sequel with Paul Feig in talks to direct. Five weeks on there is no signed deal, no writer, no cast, no title and no date, and the reporting cannot even agree whether to call it a sequel, a new movie or a reboot. It is a paragraph here rather than a row, because a project with no title and no writer is not a film. TWO TELEVISION SERIES WERE ORDERED AND NEITHER WAS MADE. NBC gave one a script commitment in September 2016, with Charlie Croker going straight until his crew is pulled back in. Paramount+ gave another a script-to-series order in February 2021, in which Croker's grandchildren inherit his safety deposit box and go after the Italian gold. No episode of either exists. The second one matters for a specific reason: its premise has misled people into thinking the 1969 ending was resolved somewhere. It was not. THINGS THAT SHARE THE NAME AND ARE NOT THIS. Clarkson: The Italian Job, a 2010 BBC motoring special in which Jeremy Clarkson drives around Italy, is the one most likely to confuse an automatic catalogue. Amanda & Alan's Italian Job is a BBC property renovation series. The Italian Job is also an episode title of the sitcom 2point4 Children, two video games from 2001 and 2003, a Quincy Jones soundtrack album, an annual charity car run founded in 1990, an Edinburgh Fringe play, and three roller coasters. The Italian Bob in The Simpsons is a parody. None of it is listed here. A MAKING-OF IS NOT AN INSTALMENT. Paramount's 2003 special edition of the 1969 film carries a three-part, seventy-minute documentary about the production. It is about the film rather than part of it, so it has no row. ONE DATE IS GENUINELY UNSETTLED. The British release of the 1969 film is given as 5 June 1969 at the Plaza in London by two sources, 2 June by TVmaze-style listings, and 27 July as a wide release by The Numbers. The likeliest reading is a London opening, a trade screening and a general release, but that is reconstruction rather than something a source states, so the row is flagged rather than given a confident day.

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