Jodie Foster is already attached to topline and direct a remake of “Woman at War,” Iceland’s submission for 2019’s Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, and now word comes that she’s set to helm another feature. TheWrap reports that the two-time Oscar-winning actress will helm a drama inspired by a robbery that took place inside the Louvre in 1911: three Italian handymen stole one of the most famous paintings in the world, Leonardo DaVinci’s Mona Lisa.
Currently untitled, the pic is based on Seymour Reit’s 1981 true crime book “The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa” and will blend fact and fiction. The Los Angeles Media Fund is financing.
The film is set to focus on the robbers themselves, who, in real life, “hid out in a supply closet and managed to swipe the 200 pounds of the painting, protective glass and frame off the wall and get it onto a French subway train out of the city,” the source details. It took 28 hours for anyone at the Louvre to notice the Mona Lisa was missing.
Foster, who won Best Actress Oscars for “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Accused,” most recently directed an episode of “Black Mirror.” Her feature directorial efforts include “Money Monster,” “The Beaver,” “Home for the Holidays,” and “Little Man Tate.”