The Thursday Murder Club movie is gearing up to start filming in the UK this summer, and we now know who’s playing every member of the titular club.
Last month, Richard Osman confirmed that Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Ben Kingsley had joined the movie, before he later revealed on May 21, 2024, that Celia Imrie had also joined the movie.
Along with the first casting news in April 2024, it was confirmed that Netflix would be releasing The Thursday Murder Club movie.
“I’m so proud of this book, so it is a dream to see The Thursday Murder Club in such incredible hands. From Chris Columbus, to Amblin to Netflix, there are geniuses everywhere I look. And what a cast. I’m pinching myself,” Osman said.
The fourth book in the series, The Last Devil to Die, was released in September 2023, giving The Thursday Murder Club another case to solve.
It’s a series that even caught the attention of the one and only Steven Spielberg. In 2020, Osman announced that Amblin Entertainment had bought the rights to the first book to adapt it for a movie.
As the movie prepares to start filming, here’s everything you need to know about The Thursday Murder Club movie.
Thursday Murder Club potential release date: When can we expect The Thursday Murder Club movie?
As of May 2024, we don’t yet have an official release date for The Thursday Murder Club movie.
However, as mentioned above, Netflix will now be releasing the movie. Hopefully, it’ll still get a limited cinema run before its streaming debut, but we don’t yet have any extra information about its release.
We do know though that filming is finally going to get underway this summer. Osman confirmed on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast that they’ll be filming “from [the] end of June through to September” in England.
Hopefully, that means we’ll get to see the movie in 2025 at some point, but all we can do is watch this space for now.
Thursday Murder Club cast: Who’s going to be in The Thursday Murder Club movie?
As mentioned above, we now know who will play the four crime-solving pensioners.
After rumours linking them to the roles, Osman confirmed on April 23, 2024, that Helen Mirren is playing former spy Elizabeth Best, Pierce Brosnan is playing trades union official Ron Ritchie, and Sir Ben Kingsley is playing psychiatrist Ibrahim Arif.
It was then announced on May 21, 2024, that Celia Imrie will be playing nurse Joyce Meadowcraft, following rumours linking her – and other names such as Dame Judi Dench – to the role.
While we have the main four cast members, we’re still waiting to see who will be playing the series’ other regular characters, like Elizabeth’s husband Stephen, DCI Chris Hudson and police officer Donna.
We imagine we’ll hear about the rest of the cast soon, given that filming is starting in June.
Behind the scenes, Chris Columbus – who directed the first two Harry Potter movies, as well as the likes of Home Alone and Mrs Doubtfire – is writing and directing the movie.
Thursday Murder Club plot: What will The Thursday Murder Club movie be about?
When the Netflix news was announced, we got our first official synopsis for The Thursday Murder Club movie, but it’s vague:
“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.”
Right now, we’d have to assume that the movie will follow the story of the first book.
Osman’s debut novel saw the titular group tackle their first-ever live case after a property developer is murdered in their quiet Cooper’s Chase retirement village, near the fictional village of Fairhaven in Kent.
Think Death in Paradise, only if it was set in rural England and contained numerous references to Robert Dyas, Holby City and Waitrose.
It’s possible that the movie will see the group investigate a different case, but we have a feeling that if it’s going to go away from the book series, it would do that in a sequel once the crime-solving pensioners have been established in the first movie.
Thursday Murder Club trailer: Any footage of The Thursday Murder Club movie yet?
Unfortunately, since filming hasn’t begun, we don’t have any footage to show you from The Thursday Murder Club movie yet. But we’ll update this as soon as we do.
The Thursday Murder Club does not yet have a release date.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
