In Thursday, Amazon MGM Studios unveiled the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair. This movie has a modern twist on the heist narrative. The film was directed, produced, and starred Jordan, who is a colleague and a friend of Ryan Coogler. The release date of the movie is set for March 5, 2027.
Jordan portrays Thomas Crown, a millionaire who leads a double life as an art thief. The film centers around a risky heist organized by Thomas Crown in revenge. In the trailer, Thomas Crown has conflicts with a character played by Kenneth Branagh, and some flirtatious moments with an insurance investigator Nadia Bennet played by Adria Arjona.
The trailer begins in a posh restaurant, where Nadia questions Crown on his assets. After that, it becomes a fast-paced sequence of heists, chases, and chemistry with stealing a Van Gogh painting by an anonymous thief. The ending of the trailer shows Crown’s dare to Nadia.
The studio described the movie to be visually breathtaking, sensual, and surprisingly emotional, a heist thriller. They stated that there can be danger in the room from someone no one watches. A poster line reads, “Revenge is a work of art.”
This full trailer came after the July teaser revealing the first glimpses of Jordan’s smooth new Crown.
This movie became another success for Jordan after a great year. The actor won the Best Actor Oscar in March for portraying twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. It made him the sixth Black man to win the prize. Sinners was nominated 16 times.
The Thomas Crown Affair is the second film where Jordan was both a director and a star after Creed III in 2023. Also, it brings the return of the studio which launched the hit about boxing.
The project was in development almost for ten years. The information about the Jordan’s remake appeared in 2016 after the Creed. “After Creed, MGM asked me what I wanted to do next. I said, ‘The Thomas Crown Affair'” explains Jordan.
As Jordan stressed, this is not a remake but rather a reimagining. “I didn’t want a reboot. I wanted a reimagining,” the actor added to Variety. He noted that the previous movies showed white rich people stealing only because it’s fun, it does not fit anymore, promising a new and exciting remake.
Adria Arjona who won fans with her roles in “Andor” and “Hit Man” takes the role that belonged to Faye Dunaway in 1968 and Rene Russo in 1999. Arjona joined the movie in July 2025 after Taylor Russell who left the production due to creative disagreements after filming began in London.
Oscar winning screenwriter Kenneth Branagh who earned the Oscar for writing “Belfast” appears in a villainous part. Among other cast members is Lily Gladstone who was in “Killers of the Flower Moon”, Danai Gurira, who worked with Jordan in “Black Panther”, and Pilou Asbæk from “Game of Thrones”.
Among people who worked behind the scenes there are Drew Pearce who wrote “The Fall Guy”, sharing the screenplay credits with Leslie Dixon and Kurt Wimmer – writers of 1999 remake. The story was written by Alan R. Trustman who wrote the original 1968 movie and Matthew Michael Carnahan.
Grammy winner Jon Batiste was responsible for creating the music. The cinematographer is Bradford Young. Jordan works on the movie as a producer alongside with Elizabeth Raposo, Marc Toberoff, Patrick McCormick, and Charles Roven. Jason Hall and Alan R. Trustman were executive producers of the movie. “The Thomas Crown Affair” is a collaboration between Outlier Society, Atlas Entertainment, and Toberoff.
The plot fascinated for almost 60 years. Norman Jewison’s 1968 movie featured Steve McQueen as a millionaire organizing a robbery in Boston bank and Faye Dunaway as an insurance investigator who equals him mentally. Their famous chess game became iconic, and the film won Best Original Song at the Oscars for “The Windmills of Your Mind”.
John McTiernan’s 1999 remake changed the job from banking to art theft. Pierce Brosnan and Russo shone in it. It brought $69.3 million of box office in the US and $124.3 million worldwide. This artistic remake became Jordan’s inspiration when he was a kid.
The Thomas Crown Affair premieres in US theaters and IMAX on March 5, 2027.
