Published Jul 8, 2026, 6:33 PM EDT
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John Travolta is stealing art and hearts in the new trailer for The Gentleman Thief. He’s a heist veteran who gets drawn in by the score of a lifetime, but soon finds himself caught in a deadly trap. The Gentleman Thief, the final film in a trilogy of crime thrillers starring Travolta as master thief Mason Goddard, will be available on digital and video on demand on July 28, and will hit theaters for a limited engagement on July 31.
In our first look at the trailer, Travolta stars as Goddard, who’s now traded the risks and rewards of his criminal career for a comfortable retirement with his lady love (Rebecca De Mornay, Runaway Train). At least, he has until his brother, Shawn (Lukas Haas, Witness), takes him on a vacation to sunny Miami with an ulterior motive. Once there, he’s greeted with a business opportunity: a painting valued at $100 million USD that’s stored on an offshore yacht. Gooding and his old crew can’t resist, which puts them in the sights of “the most dangerous man in the world” (Sam Asghari, Jackpot!). The film also stars **Quavo **(Takeover) and DJ Khaled (Bad Boys: Ride or Die).
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Travolta first appeared as Goddard in 2024’s Cash Out. In that film, his brother gets the retired Goddard tangled up in a bank robbery that turns out to be a trap set by the FBI — including his partner, Amelia Decker (Kristin Davis), who reveals that she was a mole for the feds the whole time. However, Amelia may have more secrets than anybody knows. In the 2025 sequel High Rollers, Goddard and Amelia (now played by Gina Gershon) get married, only for her to be kidnapped mid-ceremony by a crime kingpin. He wants Goddard and his crew to pull off a high-stakes casino heist, and he won’t take no for an answer.
Like the previous two films in the trilogy, The Gentleman Thief is directed by Randall Emmett, who produced The Irishman. Goddard will also produce with Joel Cohen; the film is executive produced by Rick Moore, Jas Mathur, Jake Brander, Henry Winterstern, Arianne Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Daniel M’Causland, and CC Waknine. It is distributed by Vertical Releasing.
The Gentleman Thief will be available on digital and video on demand on July 28, and will screen in select theaters on July 31. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.