MOVIES
Universal Pictures has hired Justin Lin (the director of Fast and Furious) to helm the fifth installment of The Bourne Identity franchise, starring Jeremy Renner. The story is being written by Anthony Peckham, who also penned Invictus and Sherlock Holmes.
Millennium Films won an auction bidding for the spec script The Civilian by Rachel Long and Brian Pittman, in hopes it will turn into another Bourne Identity franchise. The story follows an American doctor whose identity is stolen by a covert operative and must assume the dangerous mission of the spy who stole it to clear his own name.
Millennium Entertainment acquired the 3D indie action crime thriller Run, starring William Moseley (Chronicles of Narnia) as an American teenager who uses his free-running skills to pull off small robberies with his father (Adrian Pasdar) until a new girlfriend (Kelsey Chow) "and the promise of going straight encourages him to use his skills for good."
James Badge Dale is joining Cate Blanchett in writer-director David Mamet‘s thriller Blackbird, playing a military major trying to discover the truth about the political secrets of a woman’s grandfather who was in U.S. special ops during the 1960s.
Sony released a trailer for the reboot of Robocop, starring Joel Kinnaman as the detective-turned-crime-fighting cyborg.
TELEVISION
The Secrets of the Scotland Yard will air Sunday, November 17 on PBS stations in the U.S. From the conviction of Britain’s first Railway Murderer on up to present day, the program will show how the Yard’s elite detective divisions, such as the Flying Squad, continue to foil sophisticated criminal activity to keep Scotland Yard at the forefront of global policing.
Bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is developing a new crime drama for ABC. Based on one of Cornwell's characters, the story is titled Greta Stone and described as focusing on "a young, orphaned, highly skilled female cop, who has an uncanny ability to solve crimes." (Hat tip Omnimystery News.)
TBS has given the go-ahead to the half-hour pilot Tribeca, a comedic police procedural written and executive produced by Steve Carell and Nancy Carell. The show is said to be in the same vein as Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
M*A*S*H icon Alan Alda is coming aboard The Blacklist to portray an old foe of Raymond 'Red' Reddington (James Spader), a master criminal who works with the FBI to catch other villains.
Marvel signed a deal with Netflix to develop at least four original series, followed by a miniseries for the streaming service. Netflix committed to at least 13 episodes for each of the four shows, which will be featured on Marvel heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, in that order.
Lionsgate originally optioned Norwegian crime fiction author Jo Nesbø's book Headhunters for film, but instead has signed a deal with HBO for an hourlong television project based on the best-selling 2008 book. The plot centers on a corporate headhunter who becomes the hunted when his life and marriage are suddenly targeted by an unknown individual (Another hat tip to Omnimystery News)
Former Fringe star Kirk Acevedo and Breaking Bad's Emily Rios are set to guest star on an upcoming episode of NBC's supernatural procedural, Grimm, playing two military veterans.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
One of the featured guests on NPR's Diane Rehm Show recently was Diamond Dagger Award–winner Frederick Forsyth, talking about his new terrorism spy thriller, The Kill List.
Recent Suspense Radio podcasts have included a one on one with Matthew Quinn Martin; a chat with Joshua Graham, Geoffrey Girard and Layton Green on November 9th; and a Q&A with Bill Walker and Brian Anthony on November 10th. Also coming up this Saturday on Crime & Science Radio is the show "What the dog knows, the Science and Wonder of working with dogs," with special guest Cat Warren
Dave Zeltseran's story "More than a Scam" was included in the recent CrimeCityCentral's podcast. The story received honorable mention in the 2002 Best American Mystery Stories.
THEATER
California's Pasadena Playhouse is presenting a new production of Reginald Rose's classic drama Twelve Angry Men, directed by Sheldon Epps, with a cast of six white and six black actors. The story, adapted into a classic movie version with an all-star cast in 1957, centers on one dissenting juror in a murder trial who slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
Universal Pictures has hired Justin Lin (the director of Fast and Furious) to helm the fifth installment of The Bourne Identity franchise, starring Jeremy Renner. The story is being written by Anthony Peckham, who also penned Invictus and Sherlock Holmes.
Millennium Films won an auction bidding for the spec script The Civilian by Rachel Long and Brian Pittman, in hopes it will turn into another Bourne Identity franchise. The story follows an American doctor whose identity is stolen by a covert operative and must assume the dangerous mission of the spy who stole it to clear his own name.
Millennium Entertainment acquired the 3D indie action crime thriller Run, starring William Moseley (Chronicles of Narnia) as an American teenager who uses his free-running skills to pull off small robberies with his father (Adrian Pasdar) until a new girlfriend (Kelsey Chow) "and the promise of going straight encourages him to use his skills for good."
James Badge Dale is joining Cate Blanchett in writer-director David Mamet‘s thriller Blackbird, playing a military major trying to discover the truth about the political secrets of a woman’s grandfather who was in U.S. special ops during the 1960s.
Sony released a trailer for the reboot of Robocop, starring Joel Kinnaman as the detective-turned-crime-fighting cyborg.
TELEVISION
The Secrets of the Scotland Yard will air Sunday, November 17 on PBS stations in the U.S. From the conviction of Britain’s first Railway Murderer on up to present day, the program will show how the Yard’s elite detective divisions, such as the Flying Squad, continue to foil sophisticated criminal activity to keep Scotland Yard at the forefront of global policing.
Bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is developing a new crime drama for ABC. Based on one of Cornwell's characters, the story is titled Greta Stone and described as focusing on "a young, orphaned, highly skilled female cop, who has an uncanny ability to solve crimes." (Hat tip Omnimystery News.)
TBS has given the go-ahead to the half-hour pilot Tribeca, a comedic police procedural written and executive produced by Steve Carell and Nancy Carell. The show is said to be in the same vein as Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
M*A*S*H icon Alan Alda is coming aboard The Blacklist to portray an old foe of Raymond 'Red' Reddington (James Spader), a master criminal who works with the FBI to catch other villains.
Marvel signed a deal with Netflix to develop at least four original series, followed by a miniseries for the streaming service. Netflix committed to at least 13 episodes for each of the four shows, which will be featured on Marvel heroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, in that order.
Lionsgate originally optioned Norwegian crime fiction author Jo Nesbø's book Headhunters for film, but instead has signed a deal with HBO for an hourlong television project based on the best-selling 2008 book. The plot centers on a corporate headhunter who becomes the hunted when his life and marriage are suddenly targeted by an unknown individual (Another hat tip to Omnimystery News)
Former Fringe star Kirk Acevedo and Breaking Bad's Emily Rios are set to guest star on an upcoming episode of NBC's supernatural procedural, Grimm, playing two military veterans.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
One of the featured guests on NPR's Diane Rehm Show recently was Diamond Dagger Award–winner Frederick Forsyth, talking about his new terrorism spy thriller, The Kill List.
Recent Suspense Radio podcasts have included a one on one with Matthew Quinn Martin; a chat with Joshua Graham, Geoffrey Girard and Layton Green on November 9th; and a Q&A with Bill Walker and Brian Anthony on November 10th. Also coming up this Saturday on Crime & Science Radio is the show "What the dog knows, the Science and Wonder of working with dogs," with special guest Cat Warren
Dave Zeltseran's story "More than a Scam" was included in the recent CrimeCityCentral's podcast. The story received honorable mention in the 2002 Best American Mystery Stories.
THEATER
California's Pasadena Playhouse is presenting a new production of Reginald Rose's classic drama Twelve Angry Men, directed by Sheldon Epps, with a cast of six white and six black actors. The story, adapted into a classic movie version with an all-star cast in 1957, centers on one dissenting juror in a murder trial who slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
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