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Hollywood takes on Connor's life
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The Leppo Media Group
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Boston author's new Gardner book
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Excerpts from "The Perfect Plan... "
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New Gardner heist scenario
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Column: "The Butler Did It"
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What next for this new media group,
the Gardner as a Broadway musical?
Don't laugh. For Leppo & company anything's possible.
Maybe even an opera?
BOSTON: He's not kidding when talking about the multi-media and entertainment possibilities that the Gardner heist could take. Marty Leppo easily sees Broadway musical all over the book property. "Can't you just see Myles crooning in the Dutch Room like something out of 'Phantom of the Opera,'" he chuckles, while at the same time mulling over the serious implications of the famous art thief as some sort of phantom of the galleries.
Buoyed by the dual success of the group's first book, "The Art of the Heist" ―both as a book (HarperCollins in May 2009) and as a quick pick up by Hollywood for an upcoming bio pic on Myles Connor's life―Leppo sees the next project, "The Perfect Plan: The Gardner Heist" as yet another book and movie success. "There's so much to the Gardner heist that anything is really possible. It's a visually rich event taking place in a visually gorgeous museum over some visually priceless masterworks. That to me," he says, exuding complete confidence in anything Gardner, "is super entertainment."
"Throw in the heist plan, the thieves, the aftermath of the robbery, and twenty years of a fruitless investigation that's defied the world's best law enforcement people...and you got a winner on any stage: print, Hollywood, TV, Broadway, even as opera at the Met." With his group around him smiling and rolling their eyes at the mention of a Gardner opera, Leppo laughs as well. "But remember I told you so when you see it happen."
Gardnerheist.com will play an integral role in all of the tagging along with the media twists and turns of this Gardner strategy. Plans are now afoot for the website to add new value to the book project, "The Perfect Plan: The Gardner Heist". We will continue on after the book's final page...keeping readers informed about every up-to-the-minute Gardner news happening. "Long after the book is published and in the marketplace," promises Leppo, "readers can come to the website to follow any emerging leads...or even a resolution to the Gardner mystery, if and when that ever happens. We hope to be ready for anything." 
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up. The purpose of that partnership is to provide both print and electronic media news and entertainment coverage to recognize a singular event: the 20th anniversary of the spectacular and still unsolved art theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 18, 2010. Much has already been done. Some elements of that effort are here on the Gardnerheist.com site ready for your review and consideration (see links below). Much more is on the way.