Director John McTiernan, Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo on the set of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR(1999).
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Brosnan Updates on CROWN AFFAIR 2
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Friday, August 01, 2008
Source: USA Today
While The Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan was a remake of its 1968 counterpart, the sequel will be traveling a different direction and instead be a remake of 1964's Topkapi. That's all that we have known about the project for about a year now. Well, we also know there's one actor attached and one director, the two being leading star Pierce Brosnan and director Paul Verhoeven. The latest update that Pierce Brosnan has given to USA Today seems to confirm what we know thus far.
When asked about the source material, he confirmed it would be a remake of the 1964 jewel heist film but it would be loosely based on the film.
"We are just using a sliver of that."
When asked about whether Rene Russo would be coming back, the actor confirmed that she's not and they're going a different direction with The Thomas Crown Affair 2. They're looking for a leading lady at the moment, with Angelina Jolie being a possibility.
Plot Summary: When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with the city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the perfect mark for Simpson's brand of entrepreneurship. But Harper proves to be more the spider than the fly when he catches Simpson riffling his wallet for traveler's checks. Soon Simpson finds himself blackmailed into driving a suspicious car across the Turkish border. Then, when he is caught again, this time by the police, he faces a choice: cooperate with the Turks and spy on his erstwhile colleagues or end up in one of Turkey's notorious prisons. The authorities suspect an attempted coup, but Harper and his gang of international jewel thieves have planned something both less sinister and much, much more audacious.
No release date is set for the sequel.
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Hell the first was just ok.