Here's the latest crime drama news to start your week:
MOVIES
The Wolf of Wall Street duo Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorses are re-teaming for The Devil in the White City. The project is an adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 nonfiction book The Devil In the White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, which chronicled the charming and prolific serial killer Dr. H.H. Holmes. Holmes stalked the fairgrounds at Chicago’s World’s Fair in 1893 and is rumored to have killed up to 200 people and studied the remains for science.
The big screen adaptation of Peter Cameron’s 1997 thriller/dark comic novel Andorra is moving closer to a production start with Fred Schepisi hired to direct and James Ivory on board as executive producer, with filming hopefully starting next year in Europe. The project centers on the handsome and charming Alexander Fox, who forsakes his American life and ends up in the tiny eponymous nation - but when a dead body turns up in the harbor, the local detective is convinced Fox is involved.
Matt Dillon is set to star as FBI Agent Hamer in the Zach Braff's remake of Going in Style. Dillon's chracter will be tasked with tracking down three lifelong pals who become bank robbers when their pensions are sold out from under them. The original 1979 film starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg, roles that will be handled by Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alak Arkin in the reboot.
Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl will star in Unforgettable, a female-centric thriller marking the directorial debut of veteran producer Denise Di Novi. The script is written by Christina Hodson and David Leslie Johnson and focuses on a woman (Dawson) with a new husband and his daughter who is tormented by the man’s manipulative and mentally unstable ex-wife (Heigl).
Cobie Smulders (who played Agent Maria Hill in the blockbuster Avengers movies) is in early talks to play the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher 2, based on Lee Child's novels.
New Line is developing an adaptation of the Vertigo comic 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, with Tom Hardy set to produce and possibly star. The story follows a group of victims who are given a gun and 100 untraceable bullets with which to visit consequence-free retribution on the people who wronged them.
Mark Wahlberg has signed on to Partners, a buddy cop comedy movie witha gender twist: he plays an LAPD detective who falls in love with a mysterious woman on a one-night stand, only to learn she's both an FBI agent and his new boss and is assigned to work with him on a case.
TELEVISION
Showtime will premiere The Spymasters, a documentary which looks inside the workings of the Central Intelligence Agency, on November 28 at 9 PM. The program include over 100 hours of "intimate and candid conversations" with all 12 living directors of the CIA, the agency’s top operatives, and unprecedented access to America’s spy network.
Showtime also announced it is renewing crime drama Ray Donovan, starring Liev Schreiber as a professional "fixer" for the rich and powerful. The network also hopes to premiere the Twin Peaks sequel in 2016.
In its two-hour season premiere, NBC's Law & Order: SVU will take on a storyline ripped from the headlines, inspired by alleged killer Robert Durst, who was at the center of the six-part HBO documentary and confessed to multiple murders.
NBC announced three crossovers are planned for Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” trilogy, which consists of Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and new drama Chicago Med, including a four-way event that will also include Law & Order: SVU in February.
Matt Cohen (Supernatural) has signed on for a three-episode arc on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, playing a man described as a "sexy, edgy working class guy."
Sarah Shahi is returning to Person of Interest for the show's upcoming fifth season. Her character was shot in the middle of Season 4, but it was the actress' maternity leave that prompted her hiatus from the show.
Although fans of the supernatural detective series Constantine were disappointed when the show was recently cancelled by NBC, Matt Ryan will reprise his role for an episode of Arrow's fourth season.
Annabeth Gish is returning for The X-Files limited series on Fox, reprising her role as FBI Agent Monica Reyes.
A trailer was released for Longmire Season 4, premiering September 10 at its new home on Netflix.
VIDEOS/PODCASTS/RADIO
KiwiCrime's Craig Sisterson was interviewed by Wallace Chapman on his Sunday Morning programme on Radio New Zealand, discussing the state of New Zealand crime writing, the finalists for the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, what makes good crime, and more.
CrimefictionFM welcomed former Air Force intelligence officer Lance Charnes to talk about his international spy thriller DOHA 12.
THEATER
David Arquette (Friends, Scream) will star as Victorian sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a newly imagined Steampunk Sherlock Holmes at Chicago's Oriental Theatre Nov. 24-29, which also features Michael Trevino as Dr. John Watson.
The new play Impossible explores the relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the legendary magician Houdini and how it ultimately broke down over their disagreements regarding spirituality, seances, and the afterlife. Impossible is premiering at the Pleasance during Scotland's Edinburgh fringe festival through August 31st.
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