A FILM unveiling the secrets behind the multi-million-pound Hatton Garden heist has been shot in Maldon.

Filmmaker Terry Coker and his team captured the footage in Maldon and Mayland in just 10 days earlier this summer.

The new movie – The Heist – details the failed Hatton Garden safety deposit raid over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend in 2015.

It was the biggest burglary in English legal history with £14 million of jewellery taken.

Tattooist turned filmmaker Mr Coker, of Mayland, was asked to make the film in June and just eight weeks later had written the script, shot the footage and finished production.

He said: “The distribution company came to me with the idea of making the film. I did my research and put it together.

“We had to work against the clock as there are quite a few production companies planning or doing this. We had no time to waste.

“We pretty much shot the whole thing in around 10 days.”Maldon and Burnham Standard:

Mr Coker said the publicity around a recent trial means people “will want to see it”.

He said: “We built a set in an industrial unit in Benfleet where we did the reconstruction of the vault. Then we shot in Mayland and in Maldon.

“It was a race against the clock to be the first ever to get the story out on DVD.”

The film, which stars former Emmerdale actor Michael McKell, will be sold via iTunes, Amazon and HMV with a release date of October 17.

Mr Coker, whose first film Essex Vendetta was released earlier this year, has now turned its attentions to his next project – a horror film set for release in April.