Prime Video Restages the Mona Lisa Theft as a Family Job

Prime Video posted the full trailer on September 23 for Masterplan, a heist comedy in which Stanley Tucci recruits his secret children to steal the Mona Lisa. The film streams on October 16.

Cinema has been nicking that portrait since a Louvre handyman walked it out the door in 1911. This version sells the bloodline. An Italian hacker and a French explosives man find out the American who hired them is their father.

Stanley Tucci’s Louvre Heist Lands on October 16

Amazon updated its own note on the film the same day the clip went out, swapping a July teaser for the full trailer. Academy Award nominee Tucci plays Roger, a veteran thief who wants Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait and uses two strangers to get it. Prime Video will give the movie an October 16 worldwide Prime release.

Thomas Vincent directs. He has already made episodes of Reacher, Bodyguard and Versailles, and he shares the script with BAFTA-winning writer David Wolstencroft, whose credits include Spooks and The Escape Artist. The story is credited to Giacomo Durzi, Alessandro Fabbri, Alberto Vignati, Wolstencroft and Vincent.

THE RELEASE FILE

• The window: more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video only.
• The label: Amazon’s first French-Italian Original film, shot in English.
• The cameras: work began on October 13, 2025, across sites in both countries.
• The shops: Gaumont and Amazon MGM Studios share the production.

A 30-second teaser had been online since July 9, when Amazon MGM Studios posted the line that still leads the campaign. The heist of the century is always better as a family affair. The September 23 trailer is the longer sell, paired with a poster and stills.

Tucci is the reason the clip will get a click. The Louvre plot is familiar furniture. What the studio is actually pushing is a reunion nobody in the story asked for, staged as a job on the one painting a global audience can name without a caption.

Vincenzo Peruggia Already Stole This Movie

The real theft was smaller than any streaming pitch, and it still did more for the painting than five centuries of quiet hanging. On the evening of Sunday, August 20, 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, a 29-year-old Italian who had worked at the Louvre as a handyman, hid in a storage closet. He had even helped build the portrait’s protective frame.

About 7:15 a.m. the next morning, with the museum closed, he put on a white worker’s apron, lifted the panel off the wall in the Salon Carré, and took it to a service stairwell to free the wood from its glass. A plumber who found him at a locked door thought he was a colleague in a jam and helped him out. Peruggia walked into Paris with the board under his apron. Staff did not grasp it was gone until noon on Tuesday, when a visiting artist asked a guard to find it.

That 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa is the template every later script keeps tracing. An Italian takes a French national treasure and says he is sending it home. The painting becomes famous because it is missing. France wants it back. Italy treats the thief as a patriot even after the money trail shows up.

THE REAL LOUVRE THEFT

1. August 20, 1911: Peruggia slips into the Louvre in the evening and waits in a closet.
2. August 21, 1911: Around 7:15 a.m. he lifts the painting, strips the frame in a stairwell, and leaves with help from a plumber.
3. Noon Tuesday: An artist asks for the portrait, police are called, and the empty glass is found in the stairwell.
4. December 11, 1913: Using the name Leonard, he tries to place it with dealer Alfredo Geri in Florence and is arrested at his hotel.
5. January 1914: After a short Italian tour, the painting returns to the Louvre.

He kept it for more than two years in a one-room flat on the edge of Paris, inside a wood trunk with a false bottom. Police questioned him twice and moved on. He asked Geri for 500,000 lire to “repatriate” it. Geri and Uffizi director Giovanni Poggi had him arrested instead.

I fell a victim to her smile and feasted my eyes on my treasure every evening. I fell in love with her.

Vincenzo Peruggia, on hiding the Mona Lisa after the 1911 Louvre theft

At trial he said national pride had moved him, and that Napoleon’s army had looted the work. He was wrong on the history. Da Vinci took the painting to France in 1516, and King Francois I later bought it. The court still heard a profit plan. The sentence was one year and 15 days. He served seven months. At least 120,000 people came to see the portrait in the first two days after it went back on the wall. It now draws some 8 million visitors a year, behind bulletproof glass in a climate box.

Masterplan is not his biopic. It still runs on the same split. The painting sits in Paris. The crew is built from Italy and France. The man in charge tells a story about family that may be cover for a sale.

Who Plays the Thieves in Masterplan?

Tucci’s Roger hires Chiara, a sharp Italian cybercrime expert played by Simona Tabasco, and Jay, a swaggering French explosives specialist played by Victor Belmondo, then tells them they are long-lost siblings and that he is their father. Tabasco broke through in season 2 of The White Lotus. Belmondo, grandson of Jean-Paul Belmondo, comes in off Bastion 36.

That casting is the 1911 map in human form. Italy supplies the person who works the systems. France supplies the blast. An American star, known to a Prime audience from The Devil Wears Prada and The Hunger Games, sits in the father’s chair and talks them into the room.

THE CREW ON THE JOB

Supporting names on the sheet include Bruno Bilotta as a heavy billed Scary big roman, Barbara Lo Gaglio as a professor, and Etienne Guillou-Kervern as a French intelligence officer. Matteo Cocco is on camera. Paki Meduri designs the look. Polérik Rouvière writes the score. Marco Rosi produces.

Tucci has done comedy, food, travel, and quiet menace, which is why the campaign treats him as a natural face for an international steal. The younger two are the bet. Tabasco already travels in English-language hits. Belmondo carries a surname French audiences read as cinema history before he says a line. Put them across a table from Tucci and the film has a family whether the script earns one or not.

Gaumont Already Sold a Louvre Heist to the World

Gaumont is not a silent partner. The studio’s own kit calls it the first film company in the world, marking 130 years of history in 2025, with offices in Paris, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Cologne and Rome, and a library of over 1,500 titles that includes Lupin, The Fifth Element and Narcos. Lupin already sent a gentleman thief into the Louvre and proved that a French crime story could travel on a global app.

Amazon is now using that machine for a movie, not a series, and for a portrait instead of a necklace. When cameras started, Prime Video called Masterplan its first French-Italian Original film. The English dialogue is the export layer. The passport stamps are the point.

THE FRANCE-ITALY SPLIT BEHIND THE CAMERA

• The story: Durzi, Fabbri and Vignati, three Italian names on the tale before the English script.
• The pages: Vincent, a French director, writes with Wolstencroft, a British BAFTA winner from the spy-room school.
• The faces: an American father, an Italian daughter, a French son whose grandfather was a French screen star.
• The shops: Gaumont in Paris and Amazon MGM Studios on the same slate.

Vincent knows Amazon’s house style from Reacher. Wolstencroft knows how to build a crew that lies to itself. The Italian story team is the piece most write-ups skip, and it is the one that ties the film back to Peruggia’s claim that the smile belonged closer to home. A British-French script then sells that claim to a Prime inbox in English.

None of this makes the painting easier to lift. The Louvre’s real security is the standing joke around any new clip, and the 1911 job only worked because a glazier still had a worker’s apron and a plumber’s goodwill. Masterplan has to invent a cyber door and a blast because the old door is shut. The family quarrel is how the film hides that problem in plain sight.

What the Official Logline Promises

Prime Video’s synopsis does not tease a mystery about whether Roger is the father. It blurts the twist, then asks whether the new unit can work a job without killing one another. That is the whole engine, said up front.

When a legendary thief sets his sights on the Mona Lisa, he recruits two young strangers to help him, Chiara, a sharp Italian cybercrime expert, and Jay, a swaggering French explosives specialist, before revealing they are long-lost siblings… and oh yes, by the way, he is their father. Thrown into a chaotic reunion they never asked for, this new family must learn to work together, and try not to kill each other, if they want any chance at pulling off the heist of the century.

Prime Video, official Masterplan logline

The trailer is built to that paragraph. Tucci makes the offer. Tabasco and Belmondo take the work, then the blood relation lands as a second contract they never signed. Amazon MGM’s July line is still the cleanest version of the pitch, and the September clip is the same idea at full length.

Early viewers circling the clip keep coming back to Tucci, not to museum tech. That is fair. A Louvre steal is a crowded genre, and a father who staffs a crew with children he never raised is the only turn this one owns. The painting is bait. The argument at the kitchen table, or the van, is the product.

The Film Is English, French-Italian and Streaming-Only

Gaumont said filming started in France and Italy on October 13, 2025. The movie is in English anyway. That choice tells you who Amazon wants in the first weekend: a Prime household that already knows Tucci, will accept Tabasco from The White Lotus, and does not need subtitles to follow a bomb joke.

There is no separate theatrical date on the studio materials. The film goes straight to the app on October 16, a Friday, in the same global window. For a comedy about nicking a national shrine, that path fits. The joke plays in living rooms. The Louvre stays where it is.

Peruggia thought he was correcting a French theft and ended up making a French painting the most looked-at object on earth. Masterplan borrows the object, the two countries, and the family story, then ships the lot through a French studio that already taught streamers how to rob the Louvre. Tucci does the talking. October 16 is when Prime Video finds out if anyone still wants to watch the smile leave the wall.