Benicio Del Toro and Patricia Arquette join Ben Stiller’s prison break drama
In 2015, two convicted murderers in upstate New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility named Richard Matt and David Sweat pulled off a dramatic prison break by digging a tunnel and cutting a hole in a wall with tools that were secretly given to them by a prison employee named Tilly Mitchell—who had been having an affair with both of the men. The two were on the run for three weeks before Matt was killed by police and Sweat was returned to custody, and reports were quick to compare their escape to Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption at the time.