“The Thursday Murder Club,” an upcoming whodunnit with a cast led by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie, will release on August 28 on Netflix.
Based on Richard Osman’s 2020 novel of the same name, the story is set in a retirement community in England and follows four irrepressible retirees — ex-spy Elizabeth (Mirren), former union activist Ron (Brosnan), ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim (Kingsley) and retired nurse Joyce (Imrie) — who spend their time solving cold case murders for fun until an unexplained death occurs on their own doorstep, involving them in a real whodunit. Chris Columbus will direct.
The cast of “The Thursday Murder Club” also includes Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Ingrid Oliver and Richard E. Grant. Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote wrote the screenplay. Columbus and Jennifer Todd are producing.
The film is the latest to be produced through a partnership between Netflix and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, through which Amblin is producing movies for the streaming service. Netflix and Amblin’s pact has also included the 2024 Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton thriller “Carry On.”
Amblin acquired worldwide film rights to the novel after a competitive auction. Osman followed “The Thursday Murder Club,” the first book in a series, with 2021’s “The Man Who Died Twice,” 2022’s “The Bullet That Missed” and 2023’s “The Last Devil to Die.” A fifth book in the series, “The Impossible Fortune” is set to release in September. Osman also published 2024 novel “We Solve Murders.”
