If I remove something from a museum, why, that's just a creative act, right?
— Shawn Graham (@electricarchaeo) January 30, 2019
An Ocean's 11 style heist of the century film where a rogue's gallery of archaeologists and activists infiltrate the British Museum and repatriate the Parthenon sculptures.#creativeAct
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) January 30, 2019
Title: 'The Shifters'
Dir. of the British Museum – ‘shifting is also a creative act.’ https://t.co/Jm7CBPm5Tv
— Joe Delmonaco (@JoeDelmonaco) January 30, 2019
They arrange to get all the marbles out of the country during the chaos of Brexit. The team is international and salty. Hilarity often ensues from their carping, mixing of university erudition with profanity and drinking, and a range of museum related students
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) January 30, 2019
The cast should be diverse and young scholars who are underemployed, have been told to "learn to code" and have developed a particular "set of skills"
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) January 30, 2019
Yes. absolutely. Maybe someone who has also done preservation work in combat zones…
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) January 30, 2019
I like that. Because the tycoon is a shipping magnate who furnishes the shipping containers they need to get the objects out of the UK
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) January 30, 2019
With sequels involving:
India
Mexico
All of ~
South America
Africa
Asia
Australia
Indigenous North AmericaNow, that's a brand!
— Tetsuo Tardigrade⚖ (@TetsuoYarbrough) January 30, 2019
Turns out, someone already thought of this:
It is! Thank goodness for google. Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
— Coralie Acheson (@Coralfrog) January 30, 2019
Yup! And Horowitz made them the bad guys (boo!) Thankfully the UK doesn’t actually have a 14year old super spy so the ‘rogues gallery’ approach should work! We can file this under (more tweets that ensure I’ll never get a job in the BM)
— Coralie Acheson (@Coralfrog) January 30, 2019
