The bug in my ear reports Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to John Huddy's non-fiction book Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down The Strip to the Tune of Five World Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars with Antoine Fuqua attached to direct with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing.Published in 2008 by Random House, the book tells the rags-to-riches story of a modern day Robin Hood, Jose Vigoa. Vigoa was a larger-than-life Cuban born commando veteran of the Soviet army who found his way to Las Vegas in the 1990s when the casinos were trying to embrace a squeaky clean image. Along with his crew, Vigoa embarked on a violent 16-month crime spree targeting some of Sin City's most prominent casinos.
Ultimately, Vigoa was pitted against a 23-year veteran of the Vegas police force, who was charged with tracking down Vigoa and his cohorts without letting the story make the papers and spoil Vegas' image -- something that decades of prostitution, gambling, racketeering, gangsters, mobsters, public drunkenness, pole dancing, frizzed out cotton-candied coiffed hair, and miles and miles of sand dusted spandex and polyester couldn't do.
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