{"id":696966,"date":"2026-05-27T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696966\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:44:08","slug":"louvres-100-million-jewel-heist-to-be-adapted-for-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/696966\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre\u2019s $100 million jewel heist to be adapted for the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre<\/a> — when thieves made off with jewellery worth some $100 million — is set to become a movie, a publisher said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

French director Romain Gavras — whose work includes 2025 Hollywood<\/a> film “Sacrifice” starring Anya Taylor-Joy and music videos including most recently a hypnotic schoolboy choreography for GENER8ION — will draw inspiration from the investigative book “Main basse sur le Louvre” (literally “A grab at the Louvre”).<\/p>\n

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Film rights to the book about the October 19, 2025 heist had been sold to the production company Iconoclast, the Flammarion publishing house said.<\/p>\n

The book, written by three journalists, from French dailies Le Parisien and Le Monde, and weekly glossy magazine Paris<\/a> Match, is to hit bookstores on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to trade magazine Le Film Francais, the movie project is in development, though neither the title nor the cast has been announced.<\/p>\n

The Louvre heist sent shockwaves around the world and sparked a security crisis within the world-famous museum that ultimately led to the replacement of its director, Laurence des Cars.<\/p>\n

Read moreLouvre unveils new surveillance plan in wake of crown jewels heist<\/a><\/p>\n

After seven months of investigation, and despite the arrests of the main suspects, the jewels have still not been found.<\/p>\n

The authors said their apparent disappearance “has become a dense mystery, a puzzle that has plunged investigators into deep confusion”.<\/p>\n

The heist illustrates how “the theft of artworks has become a business like any other for many criminals”, they say. “The criminal underworld has found a new cash cow.”<\/p>\n

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