There probably hasn’t ever been a bad time to be Michael B. Jordan, frequently ranked among both the greatest actors and the sexiest men of his entire generation. (Okay, fine, maybe the Fantastic Four reboot was a bit of a nadir.) At the same time, MBJ has never had it better: his last movie, Sinners, was the zeitgeistiest blockbuster of 2025, riding its popular appeal—and genre-smashing verve courtesy of director Ryan Coogler—to a record number of nominations at the Oscars, where Jordan beat Timothée Chalamet to Best Actor. Right now, you’ll be hard-pressed to name a hotter property in Hollywood. It is truly his world.

And yet, the best may well have yet to come. Early next year, the actor-director is set to helm the second remake of sultry heist flick The Thomas Crown Affair, a passion project that Jordan reportedly first pitched over 10 years ago. The ‘60s original starred Steve McQueen as an entrepreneurial multi-millionaire, the titular Thomas Crown, who stages a daring series of bank heists essentially for the love of the game; he is tracked down by insurance investigator Vicki Anderson, played by Faye Dunaway, sparking a cat-and-mouse chase that boils over into a handful of romantic rendezvous. Pierce Brosnan stepped in for McQueen in a turn-of-the-century reboot from Die Hard and Predator director John McTiernan—Crown now a Scottish billionaire whose kleptomania draws him to the world of fine art, pilfering Monet’s San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk—opposite ’90s thriller staple Rene Russo as his begrudging love interest.

The first teaser for Jordan’s version of The Thomas Crown Affair was previewed for CinemaCon attendees last week. It sounds like MBJ’s adaptation will make for a pretty bold reimagining of the two films to precede it, his Crown a very 2020s-coded anti-colonial hero who conducts heists to retrieve “precious artifacts misappropriated, stolen or sold over the centuries from their rightful creators,” per a trailer description offered by Variety. They also describe shots that show off the actor-director doing “glistening, shirtless crunches,” and glimpses of “sexy dalliances”— presumably with Hit Man‘s Adria Arjona, who plays the woman on his tail, this time an FBI agent—so it’s safe to say that his Thomas Crown will retain the familiar erotic undertones. Sex is back at the multiplex, baby.

In a November interview with Variety, Jordan himself described his version of Thomas Crown as a “reimagination,” rather than a straightforward reboot. “The first two films were about rich white guys stealing for fun. That doesn’t land today,” he said. “Ours is more personal. The stakes are higher.” From what we’ve heard so far, we can pretty much guarantee two things: firstly, the worst people in the world are going to go off about the “woke brigade” ruining classic movies, a discourse that no one will look forward to come 2027; far more importantly, such reinvention tends to be the cornerstone of a successful remake, not least one that justifies its own existence. Either way, all signs suggest that Jordan has another big hit on his hands. And no one should be all that surprised if he leaves another Oscars ceremony with a swag bag full of statuettes.

This article originally appeared in British GQ.