Louvre heist to be turned into film by French director Romain Gavras

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The daring robbery sent shock waves around the world, and the stolen jewels – worth around US$100 million – remain unrecovered

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Agence France-PressePublished: 2:39am, 27 May 2026Updated: 2:44am, 27 May 2026

Last year’s brazen robbery of the Louvre – when thieves made off with jewellery worth some US$100 million – is set to become a film, a publisher said on Tuesday.

French director Romain Gavras – whose work includes 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 October 19, 2025 heist had been sold to the production company Iconoclast, the Flammarion publishing house said.

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The book, written by three journalists, from French dailies Le Parisien and Le Monde, and weekly glossy magazine Paris Match, is to hit bookstores on Wednesday.

According to trade magazine Le Film Francais, the film project is in development, though neither the title nor the cast has been announced.

02:14Crown jewels stolen from France’s Louvre museum in daring daylight heist

The Louvre heist sent shock waves around the world and sparked a security crisis within the world-famous museum that ultimately led to the replacement of its director, Laurence des Cars.

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