Film Music Reporter

Singer/songwriter, jazz pianist and composer Jon Batiste (Soul, Saturday Night, American Symphony, The First Wave) has been hired to score the upcoming remake of the heist thriller classic The Thomas Crown Affair. The film marks the second feature directorial effort of actor Michael B. Jordan following 2023’s Creed III and stars Jordan himself, Adria Arjona, Kenneth Branagh, Aubrey Plaza, Lily Gladstone, Pilou Asbaek, Paapa Essiedu, Danai Gurira and Ruth Negga. No plot details have been announced yet for the movie based on Norman Jewison’s 1968 feature (scored by Michel Legrand), which has previously been remade in 1999 directed by John McTiernan and scored by Bill Conti. Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3, The Fall Guy) wrote the screenplay. Jordan is also producing the project with Elizabeth Raposo (61st Street) for Outlier Society, alongside Charles Roven (The Dark Knight, Oppenheimer) for Atlas Entertainment, as well as Patrick McCormick (Elvis, Dune: Part Two) and Marc Toberoff (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Predator: Badlands). News of Batiste’s involvement was announced tonight during Amazon MGM Studios’ presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The Thomas Crown Affair is set to be released in theaters on March 5, 2027.