After Monk ended its run on USA in 2009, creator Andy Breckman by no means stopped taking notes and developing with film concepts for Tony Shalhoub‘s alter-ego. However nothing ever fairly labored out, remembers Breckman on a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Tv — that’s, till the pandemic “nudged issues alongside for us.”
That’s when Shalhoub and his spouse Brooke Adams made a four-minute movie that depicted Monk through the lockdown, which helped to get the ball rolling for Mr. Monk’s Final Case: A Monk Film. The flick, which dropped in December on Peacock, follows the San Francisco-based detective with obsessive-compulsive dysfunction returning to resolve one final, very private case involving his beloved stepdaughter Molly.
“At first it sounded type of dangerous,” Shalhoub mentioned. “We needed to boost the stakes, we didn’t simply need to come again with episode 126. We needed this to be extra particular. We needed it to be type of an occasion, for the size to be bigger.”
Revisiting the character that helped Shalhoub win 4 Emmys “wasn’t terrifying, however it was a bit daunting,” the actor mentioned. “However Andy got here up with this nice script and there was such constructive power from Peacock. Everyone was excited to revisit it. By the point acquired to taking pictures on first day, we have been revved up. It didn’t take lengthy to fall again in.”
Together with Shalhoub, the film options a number of of the sequence unique solid together with Ted Levine, Traylor Howard, Jason Grey-Stanford, Melora Hardin and Hector Elizondo. New solid members embody Caitlin McGee (Dwelling Financials) as Molly Evans and James Purefoy (Intercourse Training) as Rick Eden.
And excellent news, Monk followers: Breckman is completely sport to “discover one other chapter.” “That is my retirement plan,” he cracked.
Monk launched on USA in 2002 and ran for 125 episodes over eight seasons, with the sequence finale breaking scores data because the most-watched cable drama at the moment in 2009.
Examine again Monday for the panel video.