Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

Brian Douglas Wells

The actors have said that they weren't aware of it. The writers have said that they were only minimally aware of it and their story is entirely made up by them. The producers (including Ben Stiller) say they were unaware of it.

Frankly, I don't buy it from the entire group (though am sure any one individual, other than the writers, might have been).

One reason why I say the the writer's had to know (something a spoiler here):

Spoiler:

I can imagine the writers having a dim memory of a pizza guy strapped to a bomb and going from there (though this still wouldn't make it ok for them to make a comedy out of it) but in real life the ultimate motive of the bank robbery was to get money to hire a hit man to kill one of the conspirator's father. To get an inheritance.

That is the exact same motivation in the movie.