Five more big names have been added to the already star-studded cast of The Thursday Murder Club, the feature film adaption of the Richard Osman novel of the same name. David Tennant (Doctor Who, Good Omens), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, The Crown), Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice, Master of None), Daniel Mays (Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Franklin) and Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Killing Eve, We Were the Lucky Ones) will join the movie which is written for the screen and directed by Home Alone helmer Chris Columbus.
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie are leading the cast of the movie which is set up at Netflix and Amblin.
The story follows a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun, but find themselves caught in a real case. The four members of the club are played by Helen Mirren (ex-spy Elizabeth), Sir Ben Kingsley (ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim) Pierce Brosnan (former union activist Ron) and Celia Imrie (ex-nurse Joyce).
The novel is the first in a series written by Osman. There’s also ‘The Man Who Died Twice’, ‘The Bullet That Missed’, and ‘The Last Devil to Die’, all of which have the potential to make it to the screen in the future.
Shooting kicks off on this one soon. More as it comes in.
Lead image courtesy of Netflix.
