After the announcement of the upcoming release of a film, inspired by the affair, directed by Romain Gavras, this spectacular burglary, which occurred in October 2025, will also be adapted into a documentary series.
The Louvre heist, which occurred in October 2025, continues to inspire fiction. After the announcement by the French Film magazine of the upcoming release of a film, inspired by the affair, directed by Romain Gavras, this spectacular burglary will also be the subject of a documentary series.
These two adaptation projects will be based on the investigative book by three journalists, called Hands down on the Louvrewhich comes out this Wednesday, May 27 in bookstores, published by Flammarion.
The adaptation rights for this work were assigned by Flammarion to the production company Iconoclast for the feature film and to an English producer for the documentary series. The release date of these two projects is currently unknown.
“Le vol d’oeuvres d’art a été désacralisé”
In their book Hands down on the Louvrejournalists Jean-Michel Décugis (Le Parisien), Jérémie Pham-Lê (Le Monde) and Nicolas Torrent (Paris Match) tell how “Sunday bandits” managed to enter the Apollon gallery on October 19 to steal crown jewels for an estimated loot at 88 million euros.
This theft caused an international shock and triggered a crisis inside the Louvre, which led to the replacement of the president of the most visited museum in the world, Laurence des Cars.
After seven months of investigation and the arrest of the main suspects, the hunt for the jewels “has become a thick enigma, a puzzle which plunges the investigators into total incomprehension”, according to them.
This heist demonstrates that “the theft of works of art has become a business like any other for many criminals” and “has been desecrated”, the authors write in conclusion. “After the fashion for van attacks, after that of bank robberies, the world of banditry has found a new cash cow,” they assure.
