Monday means it's time for a new week and a new roundup of the latest crime drama news:
THE BIG SCREEN
Martin Scorsese has been attached to direct and Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the feature adaptation of the New York Times bestselling David Grann book, Killers of the Flower Moon, with Eric Roth writing the script. The project is based on a true story and set in 1920s Oklahoma when the Osage Nation were the richest people per capita in the world, after oil was discovered under their land. And then they were murdered, one by one. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case and unraveled a chilling conspiracy and one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
Chris Pratt is in talks to star in director Taylor Sheridan’s next project, tentatively titled Fast. The plot is mostly under wraps, but it centers on a black ops team that goes after drug dealers who are being protected by the feds.
Jamie Lee Curtis is joining the cast with Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, and Lakeith Stanfield in director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. The project is still somewhat mysterious but has been described as a modern-day murder mystery in the classic whodunit style.
David Tennant and Emily Watson are set to star in Quicksand, a thriller that will mark the feature directorial debut of Humans and Troy: Fall of a City TV director Mark Brozel. The story centers on British couple Dan (Tennant) and Sarah (Watson) who are living out their dream in the Mediterranean. But their paradise comes to an abrupt end when their visiting son is murdered by a local youth. Dan, grief stricken, is offered a chance at revenge by a dangerous stranger who won’t take no for an answer, but the price of revenge is one more murder.
Academy Award winner Geena Davis and Joan Chen have joined Jessica Chastain’s drama Eve, with Tate Taylor directing. Colin Farrell, Common, John Malkovich, and Diana Silvers are also set to star in the project. Although plot details are murky, Chastain is portraying the title character, who works for a black ops organization led by Farrell’s character. Common will portray her ex-fiance.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Blackbox Multimedia is developing The Last Cop and also Murder in Time, the latter of which is based on a series of time-traveling crime thrillers by U.S. writer Julie McElwain. McElwain’s three "Murder in Time” books, published by Pegasus, revolve around tough FBI agent Kendra Donovan who goes rogue in London in an effort to assassinate the man who killed her team, only to end up in England in the 1800s. The Last Cop is described as a crime procedural set in an alternative present/near future in which there is no crime due to implanted crime inhibitor chips that detect violent impulses in the brain. Against this backdrop, a reluctant former police detective is taken out of retirement to solve a murder, the first in 17 years.
Broadchurch star Elen Rhys and Pagan Peak's Julian Looman will star in the BBC drama The Mallorca Files. The ten-part series is created by Dan Sefton and is set among the expat community on the sunny Spanish island that features a British and German detective clashing over their very different approaches to policing the island.
Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Shannon Tarbet have been cast in Season 2 of BBC America’s breakout drama series Killing Eve, joining previously announced new cast members Nina Sosanya, Edward Bluemel and Julian Barratt and series stars Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and Fiona Shaw. Killing Eve centers on two women; Eve (Oh) is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy, and Villanelle (Comer), an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. These two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
True-crime hub Investigation Discovery (ID) has renewed Breaking Homicide for Season 2, and production is already underway. Breaking Homicide follows veteran police detective and private investigator Derrick Levasseur in his pursuit of cold cases around the nation.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Author Novoneel Chakraborty's thriller novel Black Suits You is to be developed into a web series by Ekta Kapoor's OTT platform. The story of Black Suits You follows Kiyan Roy, a reclusive author of a bestselling erotica trilogy, who is stalked by obsessed fan. Soon, he falls for her charms and gets sucked deeper and deeper into a dark and twisted love affair until his life and career slowly begin to unravel.
Crime Cafe host Debbi Mack welcomed author David Malcolm to discuss his novel, The German Messenger, a historical espionage story.
Suspense Radio Inside Edition chatted with authors Tasha Alexander (Uneasy Lies The Crown), JJ Hensley (Record Scratch), and Daniella Bernett (A Checkered Past).
Beyond the Cover's latest special guests were Jeff Abbott (The Three Beths) and Julie Hyzy (Vitural Sabotage).
Writer Types' Halloween episode featured horror writers Paul Tremblay (The Cabin At The End of the World) and Amy Lukavics (Nightingale). Plus, some scary book recommendations from the Malmons.
Read or Dead hosts Katie McClean and Rincey Abraham talked about a very cool program Stephen King runs and some of the upcoming releases that they are very excited about.
THEATER
La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts is staging a production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, as adapted by Ken Ludwig, through November 11. Directed by Sheldon Epps, the cast features Tony Amendola as Christie's iconic detective, Hercule Poirot.
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