Famous Louvre heist set to be adapted into feature film
Last year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre — when thieves made off with jewellery worth some $100 million — is set to become a movie and a documentary series, a publisher said on May 26.
French director Romain Gavras — whose work includes the 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” (literally ‘A grab at the Louvre’).
Film rights to the book about the Oct. 19, 2025 heist had been sold to the production company Iconoclast while rights for a documentary series were acquired by a British producer, the Flammarion publishing house said.
Written by three journalists from French dailies Le Parisien and Le Monde and weekly glossy magazine Paris Match, the book hit bookstores yesterday.
