Netflix has dropped the official trailer for The Thursday Murder Club, a murder mystery comedy starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie as retirement home residents turned amateur sleuths.
Watch the trailer above and get the details below.
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Based on Richard Osman’s bestselling novel, the film follows four unlikely friends — ex-spy Elizabeth (Mirren), ex–union activist Ron (Brosnan), ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim (Kingsley), and ex-nurse Joyce (Imrie) — who meet weekly to investigate cold cases. But when they stumble onto an actual murder, their hobby turns dangerous.
Directed by Home Alone and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone filmmaker Chris Columbus, the Netflix-Amblin production aims to balance comedy, intrigue, and emotion. “There’s a wonderful mystery at its core, so mystery fans will be very happy,” Columbus told Netflix site Tudum. “But thematically it’s interesting that we’ve got four elderly people who are living in a retirement community and who are fascinated by death and murder. They are facing their own demise, yet at the same time they are obsessed with studying cold cases. I fell in love thematically with that. It’s comedic, but it’s also very emotional.”
Columbus also praised the ensemble cast, telling Tudum: “This is the finest cast I’ve worked with since Potter. They’re just so incredibly well-prepared, and it’s because they do everything. They do theater, they do television, they do film, and they’ve developed those sorts of muscles.”
From Page to Screen
Osman told Tudum he found inspiration for the novel in his mother’s retirement community: “You just sit and chat with these people and they’ve lived these extraordinary lives. You hear these amazing stories and gossip and wisdom. The idea that these people with their wisdom and their invisibility would be the perfect people to solve [a crime] is exactly where The Thursday Murder Club comes from.”
A strong cast supporting our four leads, including Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Richard E. Grant, and Ingrid Oliver.
The Thursday Murder Club premieres on Netflix on August 28.
