Jodie Foster will sign on to direct a film dedicated to the famous theft of the Mona Lisa

The theft of the Mona Lisa becomes a movie: this was revealed by the American newspaper Deadline, which specializes in news and revelations about everything that circulates around Hollywood. The very famous affair involving an Italian house painter, Vincenzo Peruggia, who stole Leonardo da Vinci ’s masterpiece in order to bring it back to Italy(in this article you will find a lengthy article on the affair), will thus be the protagonist of a Hollywood film directed by Jodie Foster. For now the film has no title, but it is known that it will be based on The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa (“The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa”), a 1981 novel by American writer Seymour Reit (New York, 1918 - 2001).

The screenplay will be written by Bill Wheeler and, it is known from previews, will mix history and fiction, bringing to the big screen the stories of the protagonists of one of the most sensational thefts in art history. The feature film will be produced by the Los Angeles Media Fund house, which will finance the operation in full. According to statements that Jeffrey Soros, patron of Los Angeles Media Fund along with Simon Horsman, made to Deadline, actor Joaquín Phoenix, a two-time Golden Globe winner and this year’s Oscar nominee (after three other nominations, in 2001, 2006, and 2013) for Joker, was also involved in the writing of the film. Phoenix would lay out the first set design, later replaced by Wheeler’s (but Phoenix is still part of the project).

For Jodie Foster (two Oscars, two BAFTAs, three David di Donatello and three Golden Globes, including one for lifetime achievement) this would not be her first experience behind the camera. Her first film as a director was 1991’s My Little Genius, which was followed by A Home for the Holidays (1995), Mr. Beaver (2011) and Money Monster - The Other Side of Money (2016). She also directed several episodes of successful TV series(House of cards, Orange is the new black and Black mirror).

Jodie Foster will sign on to direct a film dedicated to the famous theft of the Mona Lisa

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