{"id":54236,"date":"2024-07-02T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2066123"},"modified":"2024-07-02T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:05:11","slug":"richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Osman teases Thursday Murder Club movie with first pic from set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Filming for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Osman&#8217;s crime novel is underway. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 02 July 2024 at 13:20 PM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Filming for Netflix\u2019s adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/people\/richard-osman\/\">Richard Osman<\/a>\u2018s bestselling novel, Thursday Murder Club, is officially underway.<\/p>\n<p>Osman shared a picture of a director\u2019s chair from set on X (formerly known as Twitter) alongside the caption: \u201cOh it\u2019s HAPPENING.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chair appears to belong to Elizabeth, one of four Cooper Chase Retirement Village residents turned amateur detectives.<\/p>\n<p>An ex-spy and the Thursday Murder club\u2019s founder, Elizabeth is set to be played by Dame Helen Mirren in the highly anticipated film.<\/p>\n<p>Mirren isn\u2019t the only big name attached to the project. In fact, Osman himself referred to the stellar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/the-thursday-murder-club-netflix-cast\/\">cast<\/a> as \u201cthe greatest British cast assembled since the [Harry Potter] movies\u201d in an episode of his The Rest Is Entertainment podcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh it&#8217;s HAPPENING \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jFatcYrugd\">pic.twitter.com\/jFatcYrugd<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Richard Osman (@richardosman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardosman\/status\/1808042677180453090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\/>\n<p>He certainly has a point. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/the-thursday-murder-club-netflix-cast\/\">Pierce Brosnan, Celia Imrie and Sir Ben Kingsley<\/a> complete the titular murder-solving quartet as former union activist Ron Ritchie, ex-nurse Joyce Meadowcroft and ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim Arif.<\/p>\n<p>They are joined by veteran Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes) as Elizabeth\u2019s husband Stephen, and Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker), who plays policewoman Donna de Freitas.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/thursday-murder-club-cast-david-tennant-daniel-mays-newsupdate\/\">David Tennant, Daniel Mays<\/a> and Henry Lloyd-Hughes have also been confirmed, though who they\u2019ll be playing remains to be seen at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is set to adapt the storyline of the first Thursday Murder Club novel, which centres around four retirees who enjoy taking a crack at solving cold cases. Their skills are put to the test, however, when they find themselves in the middle of a live crime \u2013 the murder of a property developer \u2013 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The movie will have a theatrical release before it lands on Netflix.<\/p> <p><strong>The Thursday Murder Club is yet to confirm a release date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out more of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/\">Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming-guide\/\">Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\">The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Filming for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Osman&#8217;s crime novel is underway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":54237,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/07\/richard-osman-teases-thursday-murder-club-movie-with-first-pic-from-set-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Filming for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Osman's crime novel is underway.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/54236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}