Master Criminal(s) Steals Iron Man Movie Armor, Disappears Without a Trace
As someone who has seen a lot of movies, I know pretty much everything there is to know about heists. If there's some one-of-a-kind diamond out there, or a Fabergé egg of legend coming through town, I am reasonably confident that, with enough money to fly around the world and talk the right people into getting over their deeply held grudges against me, I could land a score profitable enough to retire somewhere abroad with no extradition. The problem is, I am very lazy, and no one tweets about when all the good diamonds are coming through town. But there's a whole untapped market out there, one that Sandra Bullock should consider for whatever sequel follows Ocean's Eight: Superhero movie props.
According to a CBS Los Angeles affiliate station, the costume has been missing since April, disappearing entirely from a movie prop-storage facility in the Pacoima neighborhood of Los Angeles. The costume is reportedly worth somewhere around $320,000.
So maybe that's not a lot of money to split eight ways, but whoever lifted this big-ass bulky movie costume did it and got away clean for a whole month. And, like, there are loads of Iron Man costumes out there—Marvel makes sure Robert Downey Jr. slides into a new one in every movie—so no one who has one is safe right now. Except for, you know, Robert Downey Jr., a guy who, as Variety reported on Tuesday, made ten million for his fifteen-minute guest spot in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
You know, Robert Downey Jr. would be a great villain in a heist movie.
