Variety reports that Pierce Brosnan and MGM are reviving The Thomas Crown Affair with a sequel titled The Topkapi Affair.
The sequel will draw on material from 1964’s Topkapi, an MGM pic about the theft of a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. The new screenplay will not follow that movie’s storyline exactly but draw on elements from the original.
Producer Beau St. Clair also says that the film will have a “post-Sept. 11” sensibility. “New York during ‘The Crown Affair’ was thriving,” she says. “Now his values, all the things he does, have been affected (by Sept. 11). We want to take the character further, crack him open, put him in an international backdrop.”
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