Netflix’s Upcoming True Crime Doc Is a Must-Watch for Money Heist Fans

7 years ago, the whole world was amazed by the story about a group of robbers who were implementing a multi-day assault on the Royal Mint of Spain in Madrid. Later Money Heist became the most-watched non-English-language series on Netflix, proving that people’s interest in heist flicks and exploration of criminals’ minds is never-ending.

The platform’s new project goes further in this respect, as instead of depicting fictional robbers it will focus on a real-life bandit, even though his crimes were cinematic and spectacular enough to be developed by Netflix’s screenwriters.

Back in the 1990s, there was a drug dealer who was always striving for more than his business was making for him. After seeing Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves ’ Point Break (1991), a crime film that followed the exploits of the bank robbers’ leader, he came up with an idea to make money any other way.

In 1992 he robbed his first bank in Seattle, and it was the very moment he realized his talent. Overall, the dealer-turned-robber stole millions of dollars from 17 banks, and quite a fair question arises here: why didn’t the police manage to catch him earlier?

The point is, his crimes were all planned and carried out impeccably, just like the Professor’s heist in the show. He used facial prosthetics, professional makeup and numerous tricks from crime movies to make the police crazy of not tracing him. That’s why he was nicknamed the Hollywood Bandit or simply Hollywood at the time.

The upcoming documentary will explore the path that led this notorious criminal, named Scott Scurlock, to all these crimes and, of course, his inventive and elaborate robberies, including the very last one that proved fatal to Hollywood.

It promises a number of interviews with Scurlock’s friends, accomplices, journalists, and detectives who were investigating his crimes, as well as those who witnessed his decay and, eventually, death. This evidence will give us a full picture of what kind of person he was.

The film, titled How to Rob a Bank and created by Seth Porges (Class Action Park) and Stephen Robert Morse (Amanda Knox) appears to be a must-see for those who enjoyed not only Money Heist, but also Netflix’s Kaleidoscope drama show and the documentary miniseries This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist.

Don’t miss this jaw-dropping doc, as How to Rob a Bank arrives on Netflix on June 5.