King of thieves is the incredible true story of the spectacular hatton garden diamond heist, the biggest and most daring in british history, humorously told through career best performances from a stellar cast sir michael caine dunkirk, kingsman, jim broadbent sense of an ending, moulin rouge, ray winstone the departed, cold mountain, michael gambon king's speech, harry potter, tom courtenay guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, gambit and charlie cox theory of everything, stardust'. '.strtoupper('k')ing of thieves is written by joe penhall the road, mindhunter, directed by academy award winner james marsh man on wire, theory of everything and produced by bafta winning and academy award nominees tim bevan and eric fellner theory of everything, les miserables, alongside ali jaafar the idol and michelle wright 7 days in entebbe.