I’m holding out hope that it was George Clooney going full Danial Day Lewis for the next Ocean’s movie.
Really the first thing I thought of too, like decades of heist movies and shit like that, and none of it really happens.
and none of it really happens.
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Have other museums been targeted lately?
Yes. In September, thieves using a blowtorch and power tools stole nuggets of raw gold worth about $700,000 from the National Museum of Natural History, a few subway stops from the Louvre in Paris.
That same month, two porcelain dishes and a vase worth about €9.5 million, or about $11 million, were stolen from the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in Limoges, France. And in 2024, thieves stole elaborate snuff boxes from the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris.
Danny Ocean is back at it.
Damn, I hope they know what these pieces are worth and at the least sell it to some worthy collector who knows how to take care of them.
Interesting. Well I suppose with the world hurtling into uncertainty all over the place you might as well take your shot.
I don’t really care about the jewels themselves, but I guess they have some historical or artistic value. I suspect that unless they were stolen to order by an oligarch, there are backroom negotiations going on with the insurance company and they’ll eventually be returned, more valuable than ever because of the story. As for the movie, there’s probably already a couple of scripts in production.
I agree with you. It was totally staged. Those extremely valuable items just sitting there uselessly rotting away are far too valuable not to cash in. Someone with a lot of authority decided to orchestrate this heist so those jewels could finally be cashed in. And they are in such a high position of authority that the only authority above them is god.
Because the news reports I saw had the journalists state confidently & dismissively that there is no expectation for the jewels to be recovered.
Viral marketing for The da Vinci Code reboot.
