'Red Notice' Captures the Frantic Search for Cleopatra's Egg Is It Based on a True Story?
'Red Notice' Cleopatra eggs: Do the highly covetable artifacts exist in actual existence? Don't hatch up plans to start a profession as an art thief just but.
Rawson Marshall Thurber's newest action-comedy on Netflix, Red Notice, charts the result of the not going collaboration between a razor-sharp FBI Agent, John Hartley, and the "second best art thief in the world," Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds).
Eager to put an finish to The Bishop's (Gal Gadot) lucky streak and beat her to stealing Cleopatra's 3rd egg, they pour extraordinary effort into hanging their arms on the prized artifact and promoting it to the highest bidder. How practical is Red Notice?
'Red Notice' captures the heated battle for Cleopatra's eggs. Is the movie based on historical facts?
No stranger to opulence, Cleopatra famously bathed in milk to give a boost to her complexion. Unfortunately, the eggs Red Notice revolves around are the figments of the filmmakers' imaginations.
Those desperate to get stuck in the history of eggs that took on a life of their very own after the fall of an empire may just, technically, settle for Fabergé eggs.
As Hiram Garcia, the producer of Red Notice, advised The Wrap, "One of the funniest things about the pitch as we took it around town is he had come up with the whole setup that you hear at the top of the movie, and during the pitch, he has an amazing setup where he does this fascinating little trip through history.
"At the finish of the pitch, the similar thing all the time got here up which was once, 'I had no concept about the complete Cleopatra thing,' and with great comedic timing he always mentioned, ‘Oh I simply made all that up.'"
"It has such a well-conceived backstory that you want they were real, but no, they have been completely made up," he added. "It's a very fun concept he had come up with."
Consider the myth busted. You won't stumble on Cleopatra's eggs in the wild.
Per Men's Health, Cleopatra once dissolved a gigantic pearl earring in vinegar to prove that she could spend more on a meal than her lover, Mark Antony. (Take that, Salt Bae.) According to another version of the story, she popped the pearl into a glass of wine. Either way, Cleopatra won the contest with flying colors.
Is 'Red Notice' a real thing?
According to Interpol, a red notice (the real kind) is "a request to legislation enforcement worldwide to find and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, give up, or an identical felony action." An important distinction is that a red notice functions as an "world sought after individuals realize, however it is now not an arrest warrant."
As part of its true-crime division, Netflix has commissioned documentaries chronicling the crimes where art thieves have successfully gotten away. Take the 2021 miniseries This Is a Robbery, which looks at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft committed on March 18, 1990. The robbers, who snatched up pieces like Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, have yet to be identified. Some hope the art might still get recovered.
Unlike This Is a Robbery, Red Notice is a most commonly fictional tale — but this does not make it any less of a fizzy comedy.
Red Notice is available on Netflix now.
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