The bestselling cozy mystery book The Thursday Murder Club is coming to the big screen!
Richard Osman's novel follows a group of four friends at a retirement village who discuss unsolved murders—and then find themselves solving live cases. Here's what we know so far about the Thursday Murder Club movie.
It's adapted from Richard Osman's book of the same name.
In the first Thursday Murder Club novel (there are currently four in the series), four septuagenarians—Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Ron, and Joyce—meet up on (as the title suggests) Thursdays to discuss unsolved crimes. When a local developer is found dead nearby, however, the Club finds themselves investigating the murder in their own neighborhood. As the publisher writes, "As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?"
The four main characters have been cast.
"The cast for #TheThursdayMurderClub movie is insanely great, I think people are going to love it," Osman posted before the casting announcement was made. Here's who's who in the cast so far:
- Helen Mirren will play Elizabeth, a former spy
- Ben Kingsley will play Ibrahim, a former pyschiatrist
- Pierce Brosnan will play Ron, a former union activist
- Celia Imrie will play Joyce, a former nurse
In June, it was announced David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes are joining the cast, all in as-yet-unspecified roles. "I think this is the greatest British cast assembled since the [Harry Potter] movies," Osman said on his podcast.
In July 2024, the film started production. Netflix shared a photo of the main cast alongside Osman:
Chris Columbus will write and direct Thursday Murder Club.
Columbus, who famously directed Home Alone and Home Alone 2, along with the first two Harry Potter films (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), will adapt Osman's novel for the big screen, and Netflix and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners will produce it.
"I'm so proud of this book, so it is a dream to see The Thursday Murder Club in such incredible hands. From Chris Columbus, to Amblin to Netflix, there are geniuses everywhere I look. And what a cast. I'm pinching myself," Osman said in a statement.
No premiere date on Netflix has been set.
The movie will film in the UK from July through September 2024, but no premiere date has been announced as of yet—we'll update this as soon as we learn more. While we wait for the film, read the entire Thursday Murder Club series:
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