Jodie Foster to Direct Film Based on Infamous 1911 ‘Mona Lisa’ Theft

In the early hours of August 21, 1911, a handyman walked out of the Louvre with a bundle concealed under his white worker’s smock. He was in a hurry, having just stripped the Mona Lisa from its protective glass case and wooden frame. The man entered the nearby Quai d’Orsay train station and boarded the an express train out of Paris. More than a day passed before anyone noticed the blank wall space.
That dramatic chapter of art history will be adapted into a film helmed by O