Last 12 months’s brazen theft of the Louvre — when thieves made off with jewellery value some $100 million — is about to turn out to be a film and a documentary sequence, a writer stated on Tuesday.
French director Romain Gavras — whose work contains 2025 Hollywood movie “Sacrifice” starring Anya Taylor-Joy and music movies together with most just lately a hypnotic schoolboy choreography for GENER8ION — will draw inspiration from the investigative ebook “Main basse sur le Louvre” (actually “A grab at the Louvre”).
Film rights to the ebook in regards to the October 19, 2025 heist had been bought to the manufacturing firm Iconoclast whereas rights for a documentary sequence have been acquired by a British producer, the Flammarion publishing home stated.
The ebook, written by three journalists, from French dailies Le Parisien and Le Monde, and weekly shiny journal Paris Match, is to hit bookstores on Wednesday.
According to commerce journal Le Film Francais, the film undertaking is in growth, although neither the title nor the solid has been introduced.
The Louvre heist despatched shockwaves world wide and sparked a safety disaster inside the world-famous museum that in the end led to the alternative of its director, Laurence des Cars.
After seven months of investigation, and regardless of the arrests of the primary suspects, the jewels have nonetheless not been discovered.
The authors stated their obvious disappearance “has become a dense mystery, a puzzle that has plunged investigators into deep confusion”.
The heist illustrates how “the theft of artworks has become a business like any other for many criminals”, they are saying. “The criminal underworld has found a new cash cow.”
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