Happy Monday to all - here's a roundup of the latest crime drama news to start off your new week:
MOVIES
Action-thriller The Hurricane Heist from director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious) has landed at Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures with a target release date of the first quarter of 2018. The story follows a team of tech hackers embarking on a $600 million robbery from a coastal U.S. mint facility at the same time a disastrous Category 5 hurricane is set to strike. The remaining people left in the deserted beach town are a meteorologist (Tony Kebbel), a Treasury agent (Maggie Grace) and the meteorologist’s ex-Marine brother (Ryan Kwanten), who must not only must survive the hurricane, but also stop the mastermind thieves from accomplishing the heist of the century.
Chippendales, described as a Magic Mike meets Scarface saga of the '80s male strip club, is finally coming to the big screen. Dev Patel is in talks to play Steve Banerjee, the Bombay-born immigrant who turned an LA dive bar into a multimillion-dollar cultural zeitgeist sensation. Ben Stiller will play Nick DeNoia, an Emmy-winning producer of children’s shows who recruited the musclebound G-string clad dancers, choreographed their routines and ran a touring company of strippers. The film will explore the perversion of the American dream theme, set in the "greed is good" 1980s cultural moment — replete with drugs and excess, and even murder — that mirrored the rise of Chippendales.
Well Go USA Entertainment acquired North American rights to Triple Threat, the action thriller starring a roster of big-name international action stars including Michael Jai White, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Scott Adkins and Michael Bisping. Directed by Jesse V. Johnson, the movie centers on a down-and-out band of mercenaries who take on a trio of assassins hired to take out a billionaire’s daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate.
F. Scott Frazier has been hired to rewrite Tell No One, an adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Harlan Coben, updating an earlier draft was written by Argo Oscar winner Chris Terrio. The book was first turned into a hit French film by filmmaker Guillaume Canet and centers around a Alexandre, a doctor whose wife was murdered. Then, police discover two dead bodies near Alexandre's home and evidence implicating him in the crime - and Alexandre receives an email with a video showing his wife alive and well, along with a simple message: "Tell no one." With the police breathing down his neck, Alexandre goes on the run. Liam Neeson is in talks to play the central role.
Storm Reid, who headlines Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, will star opposite David Oyelowo in Only You, the latest thriller from Blumhouse Productions. Jacob Estes wrote the script and is directing the film, which features a police officer (Oyelowo) whose family was killed, a niece (Reid) who is in danger, and a plot with time-travel elements.
Michael Fassbender hunts down a killer of women in the first trailer for The Snowman, based on the best-selling thriller by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. Fassbender, who plays detective Harry Hole, tries to lure the maniac out with the help of a character played by Rebecca Ferguson. Directed by Tomas Alfredson, the project also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and J.K. Simmons.
Lionsgate has unveiled a new official US trailer for the CIA action thriller Unlocked from veteran English director Michael Apted. Swedish actress Noomi Rapace stars as a CIA interrogator lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a big biological attack, while Orlando Bloom plays an MI5 agent she works with to help figure out what's going on. The cast also stars Michael Douglas, Toni Collette, Akshay Kumar, and John Malkovich.
In the new trailer for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Harry and Eggsy meet their American cousins, the Statesman. The trailer has footage of Channing Tatum as Agent Tequila, Halle Berry as Ginger, Pedro Pascal as Agent Whiskey, and Jeff Bridges as Agent Champagne. Julianne Moore plays Poppy, who appears to be Statesman's equivalent to Harry as the two sides team up to take down a new enemy.
The first U.S. trailer dropped for for Egyptian crime thriller The Nile Hilton Incident, a political thriller set against the back drop of the Egyptian Revolution and centering on a police office who investigates a murder at the Hilton hotel and discovers there's much more going on than it seems.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Amazon has struck a multi-show deal with Agatha Christie Productions for U.S. rights to the upcoming seven dramas based on the author’s works. Ordeal By Innocence is the first adaptation, which will air as a three-part miniseries starring Bill Nighy, Catherine Keener and Matthew Goode.
The Julia Roberts vehicle Homecoming has landed a two season order from Amazon after the streaming service opted to adapt the podcast of the same name from Gimlet Media. The story is described as a political thriller and centers on a caseworker at a secret government facility, her supervisor and a soldier. Roberts would play the government caseworker.
AMC is set to adapt David Cronenberg’s novel Consumed as an hourlong drama series for AMC. The project is described as a mind-bending psychological thriller that follows two journalists who set out to solve the cannibalistic murder of a controversial Parisian philosopher.
Natalie Dormer will star in Amazon's miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock, a six-episode miniseries drama for Foxtel based on Australian author Joan Lindsay’s 1967 quasi-historical mystery novel. The story takes place in Australia on Valentine’s Day in 1900, depicting the escalating chain of tragic events resulting from the mysterious disappearance of three college girls and a teacher after a trip to the Victoria geological formation.
At Comic Con, Sherlock's executive producer Sue Vertue teased that "There is something we are working on in London," and fellow EP Seve Moffat added "We do have an answer but we’re not telling what it is." As Deadline further reported, Moffat hinted another installment of the BBC/PBS adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories was coming.
Hulu has put in development The Act, a character-based true-crime anthology series from writers Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean. Each season of the anthology series will center on one particular case, with the first installment based on Dean’s 2016 Buzzfeed article "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered."
After the controversial departure of Hawaii Five-0 Actors Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim, the show announced that Ian Anthony Dale has been promoted to series regular and Meaghan Rath and Beulah Koale are set as regulars. Newcomer Rath will play Tani Rey, who McGarrett recruits after finding her working as a lifeguard at a hotel pool after she was kicked out of the Police Academy, while Koale will portray Junior Reigns, a former Navy SEAL.
Two decades after the end of his Emmy-nominated run on NYPD Blue, Jimmy Smits is returning to ABC for a major role opposite Viola Davis on the upcoming fourth season of the network’s drama series How to Get Away With Murder. Details about Smits’ season-long recurring role are not being revealed, but his character will be a prominent figure in Annalise’s (Davis) life and will have a key role in this season’s mystery.
Former Revenge regular Nick Wechsler has copped a recurring role on Season 3 of NBC’s police drama Shades of Blue, starring Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta. He’ll play Detective Cole, but character details are under wraps. Lopez stars as a charismatic single mother and resourceful Brooklyn detective whose lieutenant (Liotta) who often leads the team to step outside the limitations of the law.
Chicago Fire is bringing Fifty Shades of Grey's Eloise Mumford into the cast for Season 6. She'll step into the role of Hope Jacquinot, an old friend of Sylvie Brett (Kara Killmer). Hailing from a small Indiana town, she'll bring her charm, good looks and probably some drama to the Windy City.
Lieutenant Denny Woods is coming back to Chicago P.D. Mykelti Williamson is joining the cast of the NBC cop drama as a recurring in its upcoming fifth season, reprising the role he originated as a guest star in Episode 20 of the the most recent fourth season. In that episode, Voight (Jason Beghe) dug back into an old case under the watchful eye of his former partner (Williamson).
X-Files veteran Mitch Pileggi has closed a deal to return for the recently picked up 10-episode eleventh season of the Fox sci-fi drama and second as an event series. He will reprise his role as Walter Skinner, an assistant director at the FBI, which he played on the original Fox series as well as the 2016 six-episode event series revival, both from creator Chris Carter.
Psych creator Steve Franks isn't willing to settle just one movie reunion, hoping to make five more movies in the world of Shawn Spencer (James Roday). In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Franks revealed he left the series finale of the show open-ended with the intention of returning to make follow-up projects, citing The Fast and the Furious as a precedent.
A trailer for the Netflix movie Bright was shown at Comic-Con 2017. The project stars Will Smith as a human cop who's assigned an orc partner, played by Joel Edgerton. A run-of-the-mill patrol night turns into something far more dramatic when they encounter a force that could change the world. Bright hits Netflix in December.
A new trailer was released for Season 3 of Fox’s supernatural procedural series Lucifer, which will bring former Smallville star Tom Welling on board as Marcus Pierce, an accomplished police lieutenant who is everything Lucifer (Tom Ellis) is not: strategic, reserved and well-respected. But perhaps even more annoying are all the things they have in common. Both men are charming, charismatic and handsome, so when Pierce starts developing a connection with Decker (Lauren German), Lucifer’s devilish traits are inflamed.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
BBC Radio's Rebecca Jones spoke with crime thriller writer Karin Slaughter about her book The Good Daughter.
Two Crime Writers and a Microphone hosts Steve Cavanagh and Luca Veste discussed the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival and wecolmed Liz Barnsley of LizLovesBooks to review new books by Haylen Beck and Karin Slaughter.
Author and former jockey Sasscer Hill joined Player FM to discuss her horse racing thrillers and her admiration for the late author Dick Francis.
Skid Row Chatter host Tom Pitts welcomed Jordan Harper to discuss his first novel, She Rides Shotgun.
Twisted Web Radio presented author Gary Starta in a Q&A about his latest novel, The Killing Collective, featuring longtime detective Stanford Carter and his wife, forensic scientist Jill Seacrest.
A Stab in the Dark host and author Mark Billingham talked to actress MyAnna Buring and award-winning screenwriter, Danny Brocklehurst about Twilight, Ripper Street, and the BBC One series, In The Dark, adapted from Mark's two Helen Weeks stand-alone novels.
Read or Dead hosts Katie and Rincey talked about male writers taking on ambiguous pseudonyms, more adaptations, and gave some true crime recommendations.
Spybrary spoke with Jeremy Duns, creator of a series featuring MI6 agent Paul Dark.
The Crimetime podcast revisited the novels of Sue Grafton, went to the movies to see a film about an infant chauffeur, and talked about what makes great trash.
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