The adaptation of Richard Osman’s murder mystery novel The Thursday Murder Club has added David Tennant and other big names to its starry cast.
David Tennant is among the increasingly broad and distinctly British cast of The Thursday Murder Club, writer-director Chris Columbus’ adaptation of Richard Osman’s best-selling novel.
The mystery thriller, about the crime-solving residents at a posh retirement home, will have a core cast of Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie, as reported last month.
Surrounding them, though, is Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays and Henry-Lloyd Hughes – as well as the aforementioned former Doctor, David Tennant.
News of the casting has emerged via Deadline, which has also shared a quote from Osman, taken from The Rest Is Entertainment Podcast, in which he enthused that it’s “the greatest British cast assembled since the [Harry Potter] movies.”
Osman clearly hasn’t seen Sex Lives Of The Potato Men.
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Published in 2020, The Thursday Murder Club was Osman’s debut novel, and its success turned the producer and Pointless co-presenter into an immediate literary giant. Amblin Entertainment got an early version of the book and liked it so much, they optioned it before publication.
The film will feature Mirren as Elizabeth, a retired spy, Brosnan as a right-on union activist named Ron, Kingsley as Ibrahim, an ex-psychiatrist, and Imrie as former nurse, Joyce. It’s currently unknown what roles those other actors will take on, though someone surely has to draw the short straw and play the property developer whose murder kicks off the whole mystery.
The Thursday Murder Club is due to start filming this month, so a 2025 release seems likely. More on the whole enterprise as we well and truly get it.
