Richard Osman reveals main casting information about The Thursday Homicide Membership movie

December 16, 2022 – 15:38 GMT

Megan Bull

Richard Osman revealed some main casting information in regards to the movie adaptation of his bestselling e-book The Thursday Homicide Membership. Discover out what he needed to say…

The Thursday Homicide Membership movie is formally in improvement, and now Richard Osman has revealed that celeb solid members are within the combine. Making an look on The Graham Norton Present alongside Tom Hanks, Suranne Jones, Naomi Ackie and Rina Sawayama, the writer gave followers a teaser of what is to come back. 

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Requested in regards to the movie adaptation, which is being helmed by Steven Spielberg’s manufacturing firm, Amblin Leisure, Richard replied: “The scripts are achieved. I’m not allowed to say any names of actors which can be within the body however everybody we’re speaking to has been a visitor on this couch.”

Richard revealed that the movie scripts have now been finalised for The Thursday Homicide Membership

For the reason that announcement of the Thursday Homicide Membership film was made, followers of the e-book have been determined to study extra, and in 2021, whereas talking on Good Morning Britain, Richard defined that they’d been significantly vocal about who they needed to star. 

“You’ve got acquired 4 detectives, they’re all of their 70s. So everybody shouts out Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Dame Judy Dench on the street at me on a regular basis, so I am unable to wait to see who they [the production company] do go together with.” 

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Up to now, the one identify formally related to the film is that of director, Ol Parker. With various vastly profitable movies beneath her belt, together with Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more, Now Is Good and Ticket To Paradise, we won’t wait to see what he does with The Thursday Homicide Membership. 

Ol Parker is about to direct The Thursday Homicide Membership movie adaptation

A bestseller, the Waterstones synopsis for the Thursday Homicide Membership reads: 

“In a peaceable retirement village, 4 unlikely associates meet up as soon as per week to research unsolved murders. However when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Homicide Membership discover themselves in the course of their first dwell case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron may be pushing eighty however they nonetheless have a number of tips up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox however sensible gang catch the killer earlier than it is too late?”

The Thursday Homicide Membership by Richard Osman, £7.49, Waterstones

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