On Tuesday, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award winner and very muscular movie star, posted the poster for the upcoming remake of The Thomas Crown Affai
On Tuesday, Michael B. Jordan, Academy Award winner and very muscular movie star, posted the poster for the upcoming remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, a film he directed and in which he also stars as the titular character. And on Wednesday, Amazon MGM Studios released the teaser trailer for the movie, which will arrive in theaters in March 2027.
The minute-and-a-half-long clip features everything you’d expect from an MBJ film: tons of action scenes, some glamour shots of his upper body, and a stunning love interest, which in this case is Adria Arjona.
It also features most of what one would expect from The Thomas Crown Affair: the interior of a stunning museum, which here looks like the Great Hall steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art; a prized art piece, which here seems to be one of, or a reference to, Vincent van Gogh’s celebrated sunflower paintings; and some heist-adjacent behavior. There is, however, one key piece of the puzzle missing: the fashion.
This is the fourth version of The Thomas Crown Affair. The original film was released in 1968 and featured Steve McQueen as the title character, Thomas Crown, a self-made millionaire who, presumably out of boredom or in search of an adrenaline rush, robs a bank. McQueen starred opposite Faye Dunaway, who portrayed a stunning and seductive investigator contracted to find the elusive heistman. Then came a 1987 version—not from Hollywood but from Hong Kong, starring Michelle Yeoh as a female version of Crown. And then, in 1999, came the best of them all: Pierce Brosnan as Crown and Rene Russo as Catherine Banning, a femme fatale insurance investigator (yes, basically an oxymoron!).
In the spectacular and undeniably splashier ’90s version, Brosnan’s Crown steals a Claude Monet painting from The Met, which leads to a game of cat-and-mouse with Russo’s Banning. This version of the film is a bona fide fashion extravaganza—not only because both Brosnan and Russo look great in various states of dress, or because the latter was a model before she started acting, but also because Russo wears some spectacular clothing.
There is the one ball scene in which Russo and Brosnan dance, her in a slinky, semi-sheer black dress by Randolph Duke’s revival of Halston, and then there is the balance of her wardrobe: some chunky turtlenecks and some terrific tailoring. It’s basically a quiet-luxury fever dream. Other than the evening gown, it was all mostly designed by Michael Kors as part of his debut collection for Celine, the French label that would later become the arbiter of chic under Phoebe Philo’s artistic direction in the 2010s.
Ever since Philo started at Celine in 2008, the contemporary equivalents of Russo’s Banning—meaning high-earning, fashion-inclined women—have all aspired to wear Celine. What The Thomas Crown Affair did for the brand in the ’90s was cement it as the destination for glamorous, practical fashion. That is, after all, Kors’s claim to fame: a sophisticated take on American sportswear. What the film has done for Celine and fashion since is cement a moment in fashion history, one that has remained a staple on mood boards over the years.
