Thrills and and a battle of wills in the Thomas Crown Affair trailer

News that Michael B. Jordan has a new version of The Thomas Crown Affair hitting cinemas next year piqued my interest as I loved the 1999 version – though uppermost in my memory if that movie (itself a remake) was the general astonishment at the time at an age-appropriate, middle-aged couple pairing up and falling in love in a Hollywood film.

To be clear, its stars Renee Russo and Pierce Brosnan were mid-forties at the time. Looking back at the furore now that I am a decade older than that, it feels not unlike when I rewatched Deep Impact last year and realised that the old people shut out of the government bunker allocation process were, ahem, anyone over 50.

That 1999 version of Thomas Crown was fantastic fun and very sexy (the original came out in 1968 and starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway). This new remake stars Jordan (who also directs and produces) as a billionaire art thief and Adria Arjona as a dogged insurance investigator after him, with support from Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone, Danai Gurira and Pilou Asbæk.

Jordan has called it “a re-imagination” rather than a remake, though it certainly has the flirtatiousness and style quotient of the last version (I cannot comment on the 1968 original which has languished on my to-watch list since 1999).

I can’t find much of an official synopsis beyond “the most dangerous man in the room is the one nobody’s watching” so maybe watch the trailer below (and check out official stills and set pics too).

The Thomas Crown Affair hits UK cinemas on 5 March 2027 which seems like forever, unless you are my age. See, what you lose in apocalypse bunker tickets you gain in the five months to your next hotly anticipated movie watch speeding past in the blink of an eye.

Watch the Thomas Crown Affair trailer now:

Images and set photos for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, from Amazon MGM Studios: