Aussie Robin Hood Corey Donaldson jailed 5 years for US bank robbery Australian man Corey Allan Donaldson, 39, shown arriving at a bank in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which he allegedly robbed on New Year's Eve; and the getaway car. Picture: Wyoming Police Source: Supplied THERE were many times during Corey Donaldson's bank robbery trial and sentencing where it appeared he was auditioning for a Hollywood role. Sometimes the Australian, who nicknamed himself Robin Hood, was confident and articulate, while in other moments he was a teary mess clutching at tissue boxes. At all times Donaldson, 40, was good entertainment, standing before the judge and jury after electing to represent himself. Donaldson has been sentenced in the US District Court in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to five years and 10 months' prison. But even from his jail cell it appears Donaldson, raised outside Melbourne in Macclesfield, will be working hard on making his odd, headline-grabbing bank robbery into a Hollywood thriller. Before sentencing Donaldson, Judge Alan Johnson read out an email the Australian had written to a publisher pitching the film and book rights to his "lone wolf-style" robbery of a Wyoming branch of US Bank. He boasted to the publisher how he had been told that the $US140,000 cash he fled with was one of the most successful robberies undertaken without a weapon. "It is quite a story," Judge Johnson told Donaldson at the sentencing. I suspect that story may be published at some point. Maybe we will see a movie. The story began on New Year's Eve 2012 in Jackson Hole, the picturesque Wyoming ski resort town that is a magnet for celebrities and the perfect backdrop for a heist film. Donaldson, who had a goatee and wore sunglasses and a driver's cap during the robbery, told the terrified Jackson Hole bank manager a story about how he watched as Mexican drug gangs murdered a man by dangling the victim by a rope out of a helicopter. Donaldson also convincingly told the manager that cartel members had buried "four military grade explosives" in snow outside the bank and if the explosion didn't kill the manager, he would be hunted down and murdered. Donaldson wanted $US2 million, but the bank only had $US140,700 and the cash was stuffed in a bag. With his loot, Donaldson claims he then went around the US west coast knocking on cardboard boxes where homeless people were sleeping and asking how much money would it take to change their lives. He said he would plonk wads of cash in their open hands. The prosecutor, Todd Shugart (who could possibly be played by Matt Damon in the movie?), didn't agree with Donaldson's Robin Hood moniker, questioning what really happened to the money as more than $US120,000 was unaccounted for. As Mr Shugart pointed out at the May trial that Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest - while on the January, 2013 day that Donaldson was arrested he was in a chauffeur-driven SUV and living in a $US347 a night suite at Salt Lake City's five star Grand America Hotel. Judge Johnson (Robert De Niro?) also saw Donaldson's sinister side, pointing out the ongoing psychiatric difficulties the bank manager suffers. "The incident here, the bank robbery, was filled with deceit regardless of what the true story is," the judge told Donaldson. When the judge read out Donaldson's pitch to the book publisher, the Australian quickly explained why. He would need the money to pay restitution for the robbery. Donaldson has asked to be held in a federal prison in Oregon and, as a green card holder, will go into US immigration custody as soon as his sentence is complete and then be deported to Australia. Already a published author of relationship books, he plans to study English literature at university in Australia and open a sailing school for the homeless. Judge Johnson said he hoped Donaldson's "substantial" oratory skills that terrified the bank manager and made an entertaining trial would be put to "proper use." If Donaldson's robbery is made into a movie, the number one question is: Who will play Donaldson? His Australian accent is still thick despite 20 years in the US, so an Australian actor will have to be cast. Hugh Jackman and the Hemsworth boys are too tall and ripped. Russell Crowe has put weight on for roles and has played Robin Hood before. Maybe Rusty's agent will get the call?