French Filmmaker Romain Gavras Is Turning the $102 M. Louvre Heist Into a Movie
French filmmaker Romain Gavras is set to direct a movie based on the $102 million Louvre heist, adapting the book Main Basse sur le Louvre (A Grab at the Louvre), released in France on Wednesday by Flammarion and written by three journalists from Le Parisien, Le Monde, and Paris Match. Film rights were sold to Iconoclast, the production company behind Harmony Korine films including Spring Breakers (2013) and Aggro Dr1ft (2023), and which has also produced Gavras’s films such as The World is Yours (2018) and Athena (2022). Few production details have been announced beyond the director and company, though Netflix is slated to release Gavras’s next film, Sacrifice, later in 2026 starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, and Salma Hayek. Separate rights for a documentary series about the heist were sold to an unnamed British producer.
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This story was covered in Boycotts, Closures, and the Museum Loot Legacy