Amazon MGM dropped the trailer on November 12 for the third Thomas Crown Affair — Michael B. Jordan directs, produces and stars, with Adria Arjona as the investigator chasing him. It hits US cinemas on March 5, 2027. But for a lot of film-loving travellers, the exciting part is that it revives one of the most enviable screen locations of the late nineties: Pierce Brosnan's seaside hideaway in Martinique.
The house from the 1999 film, where Brosnan's art thief whisks Renée Russo's insurance investigator away from Manhattan, is real. France's tourism office puts it at Pointe du Vauclin, in the town of Le Vauclin on the island's southeastern shore. This is Martinique's Atlantic side — less sheltered than the famous Caribbean-facing coves, with its own wind-and-surf character. Other scenes were filmed in Saint-Pierre and, back then, a much smaller Martinique airport.
If you're inspired to see it yourself, that Atlantic coast rewards a slow trip. Start in Le Vauclin, then push north to Le François for Habitation Clément, where the aging cellars are a crash course in rhum agricole — Martinique's distinctive rum made from fresh-pressed cane juice. The Canne Bleue bottling is the grassiest, freshest expression of it.
With a second day, keep going to Tartane near the Caravelle Peninsula: buy fish beside the village beach, take a surf lesson at Anse Bonneville, and end it with a drink on the rooftop of a converted distillery. French Coco, a small hotel with private-pool suites and a serious restaurant, is reason enough to stay overnight.
The island's rewards aren't limited to that coast. On the southwestern side, Les Anses-d'Arlet has a long wooden pier pointing directly at the village church — you can swim off it, then walk a few steps to eat accras and grilled fish with your feet nearly in the sand. Further north, Saint-Pierre sits under Mount Pelée, once known as the "Paris of the Caribbean," with a centuries-old connection to the United States that's well worth digging into while you're there.
The remake will deliver a new Crown and a new heist, but it also has the pleasant side effect of reminding us that one of cinema's best Backdrops isn't a set at all. Whether Jordan's version films on the island or not, Le Vauclin and the surrounding Atlantic coast are still an easy blueprint for a few days in Martinique: rum, surf, fish lunches, and one very glamorous villa.
