Steven Spielberg: He’s teaming up to direct Mom, I Missed the Plane for a Netflix project

Netflix has just picked up a promising film that reunites Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus, who directed Mom, I Missed the Plane, and the first two Harry Potters. Deadline We’re told the platform has acquired the broadcast rights to Thursday’s Murder Club, a long-running project that’s finally getting on the road.

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The announcement comes days after the main cast for this adaptation of Richard Osman’s bestselling novel of the same name was confirmed to include Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley.

You should know that Steven Spielberg and his production company Amblin Entertainment acquired the rights to adapt the novel in 2020, but the project, which will be written and directed by Chris Columbus, took a long time.

Richard Osman, screenwriter, producer and TV presenter and novelist, announced on his podcast “The Rest Is Entertainment” that the adaptation of his first novel as an author will begin filming in late June in the UK until September.

Thursday’s Kill Club follows a group of friends in a retirement home who get together to kill for fun, but find themselves involved in a real case. Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth, a former spy, Ben Kingsley plays Ibrahim, a former psychiatrist, and Pierce Brosnan plays Ron, a former trade unionist.

A new franchise for Netflix?

This new collaboration between Amblin Entertainment and Netflix could be a new success for the platform, given that the novel sold more than 10 million copies and was the number one bestseller in the UK when it was released in 2020.

If the Thursday Murder Club meets its audience when it comes to Netflix, the American giant can consider the saga, because Richard Osman turned it into a literary series with several sequels. next thursday (2021), The Mystery of the Missing Bullet (2022) and The last devil will die (2023). The fifth novel is planned for 2025.

The author shared his joy about the project finally entering production. “I’m very proud of this book, so it’s a dream to see Thursday Murder Club in such incredible hands”he said “From Chris Columbus to Amblin to Netflix, there are geniuses everywhere I look. And what acting. I hold back.”.