The Thomas Crown Affair, the movie's plot

The Thomas Crown Affair is the thriller and romance movie coming out. The plot focuses on Thomas Crown (Michael B. Jordan), a billionaire businessman and art theft lover. After stealing a painting, the insurers send an investigator (Adria Arjona) to solve the crime.

Meanwhile, a cynical adversary (Kenneth Branagh) has the objective of eliminating Thomas, while Crown slowly falls in love with the woman.

The Thomas Crown Affair, the movie's trailer

In the trailer released at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Thomas effortlessly climbs a building and steals a classic Van Gogh painting: then he leads the FBI agent into his penthouse full of exotic and invaluable artworks. It is understood that Thomas wants to recover precious artifacts stolen, robbed or sold over the centuries from their rightful creators. In other images he is shirtless, beginning a flirtation with the woman.

The Thomas Crown Affair, the movie's cast

Michael B. Jordan won the Oscar in 2026 for his role in Sinners, and acted in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – in the role of Killmonger – and in Creed III: he will be Methuselah in the new movie in production.

Adria Arjona worked in the TV series Andor and in Irma Vep, and in Hit Man with Glen Powell. Kenneth Branagh acted in A Haunting in Venice and in episodes of Blue Eye Samurai. Also present are Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Danai Gurira (Avengers: Endgame) and Aubrey Plaza (Megalopolis).

The Thomas Crown Affair, the movie's direction

The direction is by Jordan himself, who already directed Creed III. "I didn't want a reboot. I wanted a reimagining - he told Variety in November - The first two movies were about rich white men stealing for fun. Today that doesn't work anymore. Ours is more personal. The stakes are higher. There's still fashion and romance."

The screenplay has been in development for several years, and the movie is a sequel to the 1968 movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.

The movies about Thomas Crown in theaters

The 1968 movie starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, and was directed by Norman Jewison: in that case the protagonist stole 2.6 million from a Boston bank. The movie grossed 14 million dollars. In 1999 the sequel was made, The Thomas Crown Affair, with Pierce Brosnan and René Russo: the protagonist had to steal the painting San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk by Claude Monet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the movie grossed 124.3 million. In 2014 the magazine Empire, John McTiernan – screenwriter of the first movie - revealed he had written a script for the sequel, while he was in prison, charged with paying a detective to spy on some Hollywood phones.

The Thomas Crown Affair, the shooting and the movie's release date

The movie is produced by Jordan himself, with his Outlier Society, together with Atlas Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Toberoff Productions. Shooting began in July 2025 at Elstree Studios in England, to conclude in November 2025. Jon Batiste composes the soundtrack, and the movie releases in American theaters on March 5, 2027.