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\n\tIt was inevitable: The audacious robbery of the Louvre, in which thieves broke into one of the world\u2019s most well-attended museums in broad daylight and stole $102 million in jewels, will now be a film.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe new film, set to be directed by rising French filmmaker Romain Gavras, will be adapted from Main Basse sur le Louvre (A Grab at the Louvre)<\/em>, a new book released Wednesday in France by French publisher Flammarion. The book was written by three journalists from Le Parisien<\/em>,\u00a0Le Monde<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0Paris Match<\/em> and, according to the publisher, shows how \u201cthe theft of artworks has become a business like any other for many criminals,\u201d according to Le Monde<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film rights were recently sold to Iconoclast, the production company behind several recent Harmony Korine movies, including his biggest mainstream hit, Spring Breakers<\/em> (2013), as well as his much maligned Aggro Dr1ft <\/em>(2023). The production company has also produced most of Gavras\u2019s films, including The World is Yours<\/em> (2018), and Athena<\/em> (2022), which played in competition at the Venice International Film Festival that year. The latter film was a crime drama set in a Paris housing estate following the aftermath of a police killing of a 13-year-old Algerian French boy.<\/p>\n \n\tLittle has been announced about the film aside from the production company, and its chosen director. However, film aficionados should get their first taste of Gavras\u2019s filmmaking later this year: Netflix is set to release his latest film, Sacrifice<\/em>, which features Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, and Salma Hayek in an action-comedy about a film star abducted by a radical cult convinced it must sacrifice three people to save humanity. (Sounds quite a bit like Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s Bugonia<\/em>, but hey, who\u2019s keeping track.)<\/p>\n \n\tRights for a documentary series about the Louvre heist were separately sold to a British producer who has not yet been named.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/romain-gavras-102-m-louvre-heist-movie-adaptation-1234787753\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bow.jpg?w=1024″] It was inevitable: The audacious robbery of the Louvre, in which thieves broke into one of the world\u2019s most well-attended museums in broad daylight and stole $102 million in jewels, will now be a film. The new film, set to be directed by rising French filmmaker Romain Gavras, will be adapted from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1960271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}