{"id":468184,"date":"2026-05-26T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468184\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:03:09","slug":"louvre-heist-to-be-turned-into-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468184\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre heist to be turned into film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre – when thieves made off with jewellery worth some $100 million (\u20ac88 million) – is set to become a movie, a publisher said.<\/p>\n

French director Romain Gavras – whose work includes 2025 Hollywood 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 (A grab at the Louvre).<\/p>\n

Film rights to the book about the 19 October, 2025 heist <\/a>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 Match, is to hit bookstores tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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

According to trade magazine Le Film fran\u00e7ais, 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

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

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\nThe Louvre heist sent shockwaves around the world and sparked a security crisis within the world-famous museum<\/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 said.<\/p>\n

“The criminal underworld has found a new cash cow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre – when thieves made off with jewellery worth some $100 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-468184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}