Michael B. Jordan's Thomas Crown Affair remake is coming in 2027

This will, of course, be the third film about notorious fictional art thief Thomas Crown; Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway starred in the original in 1968, while Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo faced off with a crowd-pleasing update in 1999. The appeal of both movies is straightforward, in a way that makes it pretty damn easy to imagine why Jordan would be interested in making another: Audiences watch one of the coolest actors working in Hollywood at the time execute art heists, while having a game of romantically charged cat and mouse with the investigator pursuing him. The plots can get complicated, but the draw, for both performers and audiences, is pretty damn obvious.

Jordan, for his part, will co-star in the movie with Taylor Russell. (Her casting, back in March, was the first sign in a minute that this thing was actually going to move from being a pipe dream into the real world.) Jordan himself is set to direct—it’ll be his second film, after helming Creed III in 2023—working from a script by Drew Pearce. The schedule date from MGM Amazon can, then, be seen as a vote of confidence, because, honestly: Why would you not be confident in Michael B. Jordan at this point? (His new film Sinners, made with his long-time collaborator Ryan Coogler, is set to have its second strong weekend at the box office, despite operating without the usual safety net of a big blockbuster IP. The man is about as proven a quantity as somebody gets in Hollywood these days.)