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Michael B. Jordan has been trying to get his remake of classic cat burglar romance\u00a0The Thomas Crown Affair\u00a0off the ground for nearly a decade now<\/a>, having first started talking up the project all the way back in 2016. And things really seemed to have picked up steam of late, as Jordan embarks on a post-Sinners<\/a>\u00a0victory lap, with Amazon MGM picking up the movie\u2014which Jordan will star in, direct, and produce\u2014and cast members steadily lining up<\/a>, including Kenneth Branagh, Lily Gladstone, and Taylor Russell<\/a> as the all-important law-minded foil to Jordan\u2019s suave gentleman thief.<\/p>\n But now, not so much, as\u00a0Deadline\u00a0reports<\/a> that Russell has now abruptly departed the film, four months after being cast, over reports of \u201ccreative differences\u201d on the project. No word on who said creative differences were with, although the law of averages suggests the film\u2019s star\/director has a decent chance of being involved. In any case, the part is now being recast, presumably as quickly as possible, since the film (which also stars Danai Gurira, Pilou Asb\u00e6k, and Aiysha Hart) started principal shooting two weeks ago in the U.K. So far, it\u2019s still expected to hit its March 5, 2027 release date, despite now needing to swap out its second lead.<\/p>\n Russell, for her part, will stay busy regardless; the\u00a0Bones And All\u00a0star will pop up soon (opposite Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander) in Korean director Na Hong-jin\u2019s new thriller\u00a0Hope, and is in talks to appear in a remake of\u00a0Single White Female\u00a0along with Jenna Ortega.<\/p>\n\n