Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh and Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone have joined Michael B. Jordan in Amazon MGM’s reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair.
Moreover, Charles Roven has come aboard to provide the movie by way of his Atlas Leisure banner. The veteran producer was behind final 12 months’s remake of Street Home for the studio.
Jordan’s fingerprints will probably be all around the heist characteristic as he’s not solely starring in it however directing it in addition to producing it along with his Outlier Society banner. The corporate’s Elizabeth Raposo can be producing.
Manufacturing begins this week in London.
The unique Thomas Crown, made by United Artists in 1968, starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and concerned a person who organizes financial institution robberies for sport however meets his match when he falls for (or perhaps not) the insurance coverage investigator scorching on his tail. The 1999 remake starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.
Sources say this time the motion is going down in Europe whereas nonetheless protecting the artwork thieving theme.
Taylor Russell is already on board as a suave personal detective. Character particulars for Gladstone and Branagh are being saved underneath the umbrella.
Amazon MGM has set a March 5, 2027 theatrical launch for the romantic thriller.
Drew Pearce wrote the script for Thomas Crown after a earlier draft was written by Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson, which was primarily based on the unique movie.
Patrick McCormick and Toberoff Productions’ Marc Toberoff may also function producers. Alan Trustman, who wrote of the unique 1968 movie, is an govt producer.
Branagh received the Oscar in 2022 for authentic screenplay for his movie private drama Belfast, which he additionally earned him nominations for steering and for finest image. He already had 5 earlier Oscar nominations underneath his belt. As an actor, he appeared in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and can subsequent be seen reverse Ryan Reynolds in Mayday.
Gladstone turned the primary Native American to be nominated for an Academy Award for finest actress due to her starring position reverse Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. The position additionally earned her the 2023 Golden Globe for finest actress in a drama movement image, the 2024 Display Actors Guild Award for feminine actor in a number one position, finest actress of 2023 by the New York Movie Critics Circle and The Nationwide Board of Evaluation.
Gladstone appeared in Hulu’s restricted sequence Below The Bridge in one other position that earned her varied accolades, an Emmy, SAG, and Indie Spirit Award nominations amongst them. She will at the moment be seen in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding ceremony Banquet for Bleecker Avenue.
Gladstone is repped by IAG, Genuine and McKuin Frankel whereas Branagh is repped by WME, Berwick & Kovacik, and Gochman Legislation Group.