Hollywood star Michael B. Jordan is at present planning a contemporary remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, which relies on the 1968 and 1999 heist movies of the identical identify. After an intensive casting course of, Jordan appears to have discovered his feminine counterpart for the movie. Taylor Russell, who was beforehand featured in Waves, each Escape Room motion pictures, and Bones and All, has joined the challenge.
Deadline stories that Russell was the actor chosen by Jordan to play reverse him within the heist movie. It wasn’t a simple casting course of, as a number of different gifted performers auditioned. Nonetheless, after a display check with Jordan himself, she was chosen as the subsequent girl in command of investigating the wealthy dude who likes to steal (the character was performed by Faye Dunaway in 1968 and Rene Russo in 1999).
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Jordan is closely concerned within the movie as a producer through his Outlier Society banner alongside Elizabeth Raposo. Nevertheless, he is additionally set to direct the film based mostly on the script by Drew Pearce, who landed screenwriting duties after Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson have been concerned within the first draft. Jordan debuted as a director with the 2023 sequel Creed III.
The upcoming The Thomas Crown Affair represents the third model of the identical story. The primary film, launched in 1968, starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway because the leads. The important reception was good, and it landed two nominations on the Academy Awards. The 1999 model starred Pierce Brosnan and Russo because the leads, a field workplace success that grossed $124 million worldwide. Each movies have comparable plots, which observe a billionaire who has gotten bored over his capacity to purchase something he needs. He turns into a high-profile thief and solely steals nice paintings. An insurance coverage investigator is certain that the rich man is concerned within the newest heist, however as she digs deep, she falls in love with him.
Might This Be Amazon MGM Studios’ “Different” Bond?
The Thomas Crown Affair IP is owned by none aside from Amazon MGM Studios, the studio well-known for its current acquisition of the James Bond franchise. Each earlier Thomas Crown movies have been produced and launched beneath MGM’s label, and the upcoming reimagining by Michael B. Jordan can even contain them.
As Deadline’s piece signifies, Jordan could possibly be considering of a serious counterpart to the worldwide spy franchise that is additionally contained in the umbrella of Amazon MGM’s inventive drive. Though each franchises are extraordinarily totally different in scope and nature, it is no coincidence that Brosnan, a.okay.a. James Bond within the Nineteen Nineties, was the star of the 1999 model of The Thomas Crown Affair. Brosnan just lately supplied his finest needs to Jordan concerning the deliberate remake:
“Oh, Michael is such a gifted actor, and it is all his for the doing and the taking. It’s. Yeah, why not? I actually love heist motion pictures, it is why I made the remake and the timing for me was excellent within the days of MGM and James Bond. So, sure, good luck. I want him each success.”
Supply: Deadline