Jon M. Chu directing The Great Chinese Art Heist
Jon M. Chu is to direct 'The Great Chinese Art Heist'. The 41-year-old filmmaker is to helm the new Warner Bros. flick, which is based on a GQ magazine article by Alex W. Palmer. The article tells the story of a number of museum art robberies that took place in Europe, in which Chinese antiques were stolen, chiefly those from the nation's old Summer Palace which was raided in 1860 by French soldiers. Nobody knows who the thieves are, but the works of art continually wind up back in China. The GQ piece questions who gets to own art and whether there's some sort of coordinated effort to reclaim ...