Actor Michael B. Jordan is still poised to take the lead in a revival of classic heist pic, The Thomas Crown Affair. For this, there’s word from Deadline that Marvel movie directors Anthony and Joe Russo may be in the running to helm the project.
As Mike Fleming Jr. notes, the news comes just as the two sibs, founders of their AGBO label, inked a deal with MGM and officiated “a multi-film non-exclusive creative partnership to co-develop, co-produce and co-finance a slate of projects” from the MGM library.
Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway starred in the title role in the 1968 flick from director Norman Lewison. The film centers on a billionaire businessman/career thief who ensues a romance with a beautiful insurance investigator when his latest job lands him on her radar.
Director John McTiernan remade the film with a different ending in 1999 at the time with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo headlining.
Jordan, fresh from the success of Creed 2 and who has Destin Daniel Cretton’s upcoming civil rights drama, Just Mercy, is also reportedly still producing the film via his Outlier Society banner. Deepwater Horizon and World War Z scribe Matthew Michael Carnahan is penning the script.
The deal between MGM and AGBO marks The Thomas Crown Affair as the first project on their growing slate with the brothers readily lining up other classic properties to tap into, including The Pink Panther and It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.