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Taylor Russell will no longer star in Amazon MGM’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair.
The Bones and All actress exited the movie over creative differences.
Michael B. Jordan will direct and star in the romantic thriller, a remake of the 1968 and 1999 films of the same name.
Taylor Russell’s affair with Thomas Crown has ended before it began.
The Bones and All actress has exited Michael B. Jordan’s Amazon MGM remake of the romantic heist-thriller The Thomas Crown Affair over creative differences, Entertainment Weekly confirm on Saturday. Her role will be recast.
Russell was set to play the female lead opposite Jordan, who is directing the project. In Norman Jewison’s original 1968 version of the film, Faye Dunaway portrayed an investigator attempting to link the suave millionaire Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) to a major bank robbery, only to become romantically involved with the suspect.
In John McTiernan’s 1999 remake, Rene Russo played a similar role, only this time her target Thomas (portrayed by Pierce Brosnan) is suspected of stealing a priceless Monet painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Russell is best known for her work in Luca Guadagnino’s 2022 cannibal romance, Bones and All; Netflix’s sci-fi series Lost in Space, the psychological thriller Escape Room, and Trey Edward Shults’ tense drama Waves. She’ll next appear in Na Hong-jin’s sci-fi thriller Hope.
Thomas Crown will also star Kenneth Branagh (A Haunting in Venice), Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Danai Gurira (Black Panther), Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones), and Aiysha Hart (Atlantis). The film remains in production in London, and is set to hit theaters on March 5, 2027.
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Taylor Russell at the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards in London on February 2024
Written by Drew Pearce (The Fall Guy, Iron Man 3), the new Thomas Crown will mark Jordan’s second directorial project, following his 2023 debut, Creed III.
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Jordan told EW in a 2021 interview that working Denzel Washington, who directed him in 2021’s A Journal for Jordan, helped influence his later stint behind the camera. “It was definitely the right project for me to do right before [Creed III], for sure,” he said. “Being directed by Denzel, it’s like you had a master class at everything. He shows up every day to work to give it his all. He leaves with nothing in the tank, so you’ve got to match that energy and that drive.”
The actor continued, “It definitely pushed me to do more. That was an incredible experience. Character development, breaking down characters, just getting to the micro of everything, being as specific as possible. It raised my game in a lot of ways, so I’m extremely grateful for that process.”
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