EXCLUSIVE: Netflix simply boarded a buzzy one. The streamer has joined The Thursday Homicide Membership, the Chris Columbus-directed characteristic adaptation of Richard Osman’s bestselling novel.
Simply days after casting on the flick was confirmed with Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley in lead roles, we are able to reveal that Netflix is now additionally connected.
The movie has been on the boil since September 2020, when Steven Spielberg acquired the difference rights from Osman, the British gameshow host, TV exec, screenwriter and novelist. Spielberg’s Amblin Leisure is making it, with Columbus (House Alone, Mrs Doubtfire and Harry Potter) the author and director.
The movie would be the newest to return via Netflix’s movie partnership with Amblin, which has already spawned the the upcoming Jaume Collet-Serra motion thriller Carry-On, starring Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton.
The story follows a bunch of aged associates in a retirement house who collect to resolve murders for enjoyable, however discover themselves caught in an actual case. Mirren will play ex-spy Elizabeth, Kingsley will play ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim and Brosnan will play former union activist Ron. Negotiations for an actress to play the fourth member of the group, Joyce, are ongoing.
In accordance Osman, talking on his podcast The Relaxation is Leisure earlier this week, filming will start within the UK on the finish of June and run via to September. Holly Bario, Jeb Brody and Eleanor Columbus are the manager producers and Jennifer Todd is the producer.
Osman’s novel, his first as an writer, has bought greater than ten million copies and was the primary ever debut novel to be the Christmas primary within the UK. It led to sequel books resembling The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed and The Final Satan to Die, the latter of which turned the fastest-selling e book by a British writer since data started. Solely Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and Dan Brown’s The Misplaced Image bought sooner anyplace and a fifth story is about for 2025.
Osman is understood to hundreds of thousands within the UK because the presenter of BBC gameshow Richard Osman’s Home of Video games and spent years as quizmaster on daytime quiz Pointless. In trade circles, he’s recognized for an extended affiliation with Endemol UK (now a part of Banijay UK), rising to Artistic Director on the Huge Brother firm earlier than leaving in 2020.
“I’m so happy with this e book, so it’s a dream to see The Thursday Homicide Membership in such unimaginable palms,” mentioned Osman. “From Chris Columbus, to Amblin to Netflix, there are geniuses in every single place I look. And what a solid. I’m pinching myself.”