Monday greetings to you and hope you enjoy the latest roundup of crime dramas to start off the week:
FILM
David Ayer is squeezing in the gritty indie crime thriller, Tax Collector, between directing Bright and its sequel. Although plot details are being kept under wraps, the crime drama is set in Los Angeles and stars Shia LaBeouf and Bobby Soto. Tax Collector is said to harken back to Ayer’s earlier gritty crime thrillers Training Day (which he wrote and Antoine Fuqua directed) and End of Watch.
Quentin Tarantino has hired Scoot McNairy to join the cast of his Sony Pictures film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. McNairy will play the role of a cowboy named Business Bob Gilbert, a character in the Western TV show that's an element of a Pulp Fiction-like tapestry of the summer of 1969 in L.A. set against the backdrop of the Manson Family murders. McNairy joins an all-star cast that is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Timothy Olyphant, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Dakota Fanning, Al Pacino, Emile Hirsch, Clifton Collins Jr, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Keith Jefferson, and Nicholas Hammond.
20th Century Fox has moved Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile, based on the Agatha Christie novel featuring Detective Hercule Poirot, from its planned Nov. 8, 2019 release to Dec. 20, 2019, which means it will go head-to-head against a pair of likely blockbusters: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode IX and Universal’s musical Wicked. Christie's classic story sees Poirot on vacation on the Nile pulled into the investigation of the murder of a young heiress.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Paramount Television, Anonymous Content, and Sugar23 have optioned the rights to Shari Lapena’s bestselling thriller novel The Couple Next Door to develop as a television series. Adapted by playwright/TV writer Lila Feinberg (Younger), the potential series will follow three couples, living in the same apartment building in Manhattan, as their lives intertwine and unfold in the aftermath of a dinner party that ends in a shocking crime.
BritBox has teamed up with the BBC and a number of of other European broadcasters to launch a Spain-set crime drama from the writer behind The Good Karma Hospital and Delicious. With a working title of The Mallorca Files, the ten-part drama is set among the expat community on the sunny Spanish island and features a British and German detective clashing over their very different approaches to policing the island. While self-confessed introverted Brit Miranda Blake takes her career seriously, German Max Wolf is a classic extrovert and unashamedly unconventional, and the two characters battle it out to solve crimes in the sun-drenched setting.
DirecTV has nabbed Latin American pay TV rights to Mediaset España’s hit Spanish primetime drama El Accidente (which is an adaptation of a Turkish TV series). The show tells the story of a woman investigating her husband’s double life after a terrible accident sheds light on his secrets and lies. It stars some of Spain’s most highly-regarded actors including Inma Cuesta, Quim Gutiérrez, and Berta Vázquez.
Former Inhumans star Serinda Swan has been tapped to star in the CBC’s upcoming drama series Coroner, created by Morwyn Brebner (Saving Hope) and inspired by M.R. Hall’s best-selling book series. The project centers on a former Toronto ER doctor turned newly appointed coroner investigating suspicious deaths, Jenny Cooper. The recent passing of her beloved husband has unlocked a primal connection to death that's tied to a secret in her past that is only now coming to the surface.
The new trailer for Aneesh Chaganty’s innovative, award-winning Sundance thriller Searching stars John Cho as David Kim, who starts to go down an Internet rabbit hole when his 16-year-old daughter (Michelle La) goes missing. A local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case, but 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search his daughter’s laptop. It opens a Pandora’s box of clues, truths and secrets that might or might not lead him to his daughter. The thriller also stars Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, and Sara Sohn.
NBC has unveiled its fall premiere dates including the "Chicago" trio of Chicago Med, Chicago Fire, and Chicago P.D. back-to-back on September 26, and Law & Order: SVU on September 27.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Suspense Radio Inside Edition welcomed Kelli Clare to chat about her romantic thriller Hidden, which delves into the dark corners of obsession and family intrigue, and also spoke with EC Frey about her latest novel, Entangled Moon, that centers on Heather, a woman who has everything - until a bullet ends the life of an ex-employee whom Heather helped fire.
The Story Blender chatted with Carolyn Wheat, instructor and award-winning mystery writer, who shares her unique insights and explains the difference between mystery and suspense.
Read or Dead hosts Katie McClean and Rincey Abraham discussed Gillian Flynn and the upcoming adaptation of her novel, Sharp Objects, for HBO, as well as taking a look at diversifying crime fiction, and also the words or descriptions that will immediately will cause them to pick up a book.
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