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.
Additionally, Charles Roven has come aboard to produce the film via his Atlas Entertainment banner. The veteran producer was behind last year’s remake of Road House for the studio.
Jordan’s fingerprints will be all over the heist feature as he is not only starring in it but directing it as well as producing it with his Outlier Society banner. The company’s Elizabeth Raposo is also producing.
Production begins this week in London.
The original Thomas Crown, made by United Artists in 1968, starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and involved a man who organizes bank robberies for sport but meets his match when he falls for (or maybe not) the insurance investigator hot on his tail. The 1999 remake starred Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.
Sources say this time the action is taking place in Europe while still keeping the art thieving theme.
Taylor Russell is already on board as a suave private detective. Character details for Gladstone and Branagh are being kept under the umbrella.
Amazon MGM has set a March 5, 2027 theatrical release for the romantic thriller.
Drew Pearce wrote the script for Thomas Crown after a previous draft was written by Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson, which was based on the original film.
Patrick McCormick and Toberoff Productions’ Marc Toberoff will also serve as producers. Alan Trustman, who wrote of the original 1968 film, is an executive producer.
Branagh won the Oscar in 2022 for original screenplay for his film personal drama Belfast, which he also earned him nominations for directing and for best picture. He already had five previous Oscar nominations under his belt. As an actor, he appeared in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and will next be seen opposite Ryan Reynolds in Mayday.
Gladstone became the first Native American to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress thanks to her starring role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. The role also earned her the 2023 Golden Globe for best actress in a drama motion picture, the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Award for female actor in a leading role, best actress of 2023 by the New York Film Critics Circle and The National Board of Review.
Gladstone appeared in Hulu’s limited series Under The Bridge in another role that earned her various accolades, an Emmy, SAG, and Indie Spirit Award nominations among them. She can currently be seen in Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet for Bleecker Street.
Gladstone is repped by IAG, Authentic and McKuin Frankel while Branagh is repped by WME, Berwick & Kovacik, and Gochman Law Group.