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Chris Columbus will direct the detective comedy "The Thursday Murder Club", based on Richard Osman's novel

20 Apr
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Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and sir Ben Kingsley may play the lead roles in the movie.
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Director Chris Columbus, known for "Home Alone" and "Harry Potter", will direct the detective comedy "The Thursday Murder Club", an adaptation of Richard Osman's best-selling novel of the same name.

The project's cast is also starting to take shape, with Variety reporting that Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and sir Ben Kingsley are up for three of the four lead roles in the film. The actors have not yet been confirmed, production company Amblin is in talks with them.

The novel "The Thursday Murder Club" was released in 2020 and became the best-selling debut novel since Joanne Rowling. The detective tells the story of four residents of a nursing home who gather in the common room each week to discuss unsolved crimes. But when a local construction worker is found dead, the foursome find themselves at the center of their first real investigation.

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suzanna9491
suzanna9491
20 Apr 13:36 # Show original
Chris Columbus has been a sponsor of my Christmas mood for many years
MOPE_AHAHACOB
MOPE_AHAHACOB
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21 Apr 01:18 # Show original
I hope the New Year's tone will not be in the film about the killers
Jeronimoo
Jeronimoo
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20 Apr 14:02 # Show original
The director is cool and the cast will be waiting
paranoid_nerd
paranoid_nerd
20 Apr 14:50 # Show original
It looks great so far, let's wait 🔥
067
067
20 Apr 14:56 # Show original
A lucky year for book lovers.
The end we start with;
Inside the killer;
The Master and Margarita;
Dragon House;
murder club on Thursdays;
...
MOPE_AHAHACOB
MOPE_AHAHACOB
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21 Apr 01:19 # Show original
and what other books have been filmed? I want to read it, and then watch it 🥹
Bairum
Bairum
21 Apr 01:32 # Show original
@MOPE_AHAHACOB: the Task of Three Bodies, Spiderwick Chronicles, Lords of the Air, Ripley, Percy Jackson, Sympathizer, Eterna, Inside the Killer, Onegin, Crime and Punishment, Dune, House of the Dragon (again), gentleman in Moscow, the Obvious Incredible, a Hundred years ahead, Shogun, Cosmonaut (with Sandler), Mickey 17, The Ministry of Non-Gentleman's Affairs. These are both movies and TV series. Maybe something started coming out on the 23rd, and something will only come out, but give or take something like that.

P.S. Never read books before watching the film adaptation. In 95% of cases, you will spit from adaptation. In my memory, only Flying over the Cuckoo's Nest turned out to be more interesting than the book, even if the director redid one important topic, which Kesey, the author of the novel, did not agree with. Well, the adaptation of comics / games is a completely different story, of course.
jensenjar
jensenjar
21 Apr 10:31 # Show original
@Bairum: More Australian - Apples Never Fall and Drought 2 movie just released.
marlowe Murder Club.
miia_sunshine
miia_sunshine
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22 Apr 11:08 # Show original
@Bairum: and also "The Great Gatsby" is the very case when the film adaptation is much better than the original source! )
h_accord
h_accord
20 Apr 16:17 # Show original
Great news, because the detective series is just wonderful 😊
Bairum
Bairum
20 Apr 17:42 # Show original
Why not a TV series? Such Onlymurdersinthbuilding is a substitute, judging by the synopsis.

P.S. I saw AVGN in the photo at first 😅
jensenjar
jensenjar
21 Apr 10:28 # Show original
I haven 't read it . But it looks like the Marlowe murder club from the description
tommytorta
tommytorta
21 Apr 15:08 # Show original
Oooh, as an ardent detective book lover, I am very happy about this film adaptation 😍
Artmess
Artmess
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21 Apr 19:17 # Show original
I didn't think I'd live to see the days when Brosnan would start playing combat pensioners instead of James Bond. It looks like Kingsley is planning to play Ibrahim, and Brosnan is planning to play Ron, but it would be better if the opposite were true.
Bairum
Bairum
21 Apr 20:44 # Show original
@Artmess: be strong, we have almost lived up to the time when Craig plays combat pensioners with the face of a drunkard. And the new Bond is a grown - up Kick - ass 😅
amazonka_1992
amazonka_1992
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21 Apr 21:20 # Show original
Great news, I'm just finishing reading it.
DiKEY999
DiKEY999
21 Apr 21:44 # Show original
It's so funny, I just remember reading Stephen King's book- Mr. Mercedes, the series was announced. The same has been the case since 12/22/63. And then at the beginning of the year I read all four books of the club and the news about the film adaptation.
Vademao
Vademao
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22 Apr 03:59 # Show original
I recently finished a new book in the series, I really hope that the film adaptation will not disappoint. Helen Mirren would be perfect for the role of Elizabeth)
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