Louvre Heist to Be Adapted Into a Film
Flammarion said film rights to the book, which examines the 19 October, 2025 heist, have been acquired by the production company Iconoclast.
A year after thieves pulled off a stunning robbery at the Louvre and vanished with jewellery valued at about $100 million (€88 million), the audacious crime is now heading to the big screen, according to a publisher.
French filmmaker Romain Gavras — whose credits include the 2025 Hollywood film Sacrifice starring Anya Taylor-Joy, as well as music videos, most recently a hypnotic schoolboy choreography for GENER8ION — will take inspiration from the investigative book Main basse sur le Louvre (A grab at the Louvre).
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Flammarion said film rights to the book, which examines the 19 October, 2025 heist, have been acquired by the production company Iconoclast.
The book, by three journalists from the French newspapers Le Parisien and Le Monde and the weekly glossy Paris Match, is due in bookstores tomorrow.
Even after seven months of investigation, and despite the arrests of the main suspects, the missing jewels have yet to resurface
The Louvre robbery reverberated far beyond France, triggering alarm across the world and exposing a security crisis inside the famed museum that eventually led to the replacement of its director, Laurence des Cars.
Seven months into the investigation, and despite the arrests of the main suspects, the jewels themselves remain missing.
The Louvre robbery reverberated around the world and unleashed a security crisis inside the world-famous museum
The authors said the jewels’ apparent disappearance “has become a dense mystery, a puzzle that has plunged investigators into deep confusion”.
They said the case shows how “the theft of artworks has become a business like any other for many criminals”.
“The criminal underworld has found a new cash cow.”
