It's the start of a new week, and that means it's time for a new roundup of crime drama news:
THE BIG SCREEN
Shooting has begun on Tenet, which is now officially the title of Christopher Nolan’s secretive next movie. The project also added Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Clémence Poésy to the ensemble cast (joining already-cast John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Elizabeth Debicki). Although almost everything about the production has been kept under wraps, it's said to be is an action epic evolving around the world of international espionage.
FilmNational sold international rights at Cannes to the Shailene Woodley serial killer thriller, Misanthrope. Woodley stars as a talented but troubled cop recruited by the FBI to help profile and track a murderer. Additional casting is underway, and filming is expected to take place in Atlanta later this year.
Sony snagged another Cannes win, taking rights to the Italian Cannes competition film, The Traitor. The Marco Bellocchio-directed drama chronicles the takedown of organized crime seen through the eyes of Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), a key mob figure who turned state’s evidence, leading to a slew of killers and drug traffickers ending up in prison.
With an eye toward a theatrical release this year, Magnolia Pictures has acquired the North American rights to The Whistlers, the inventive crime thriller from Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu. In The Whistlers, not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off.
Fresh off the box office success of John Wick 3's opening weekend, Lionsgate has greenlit another sequel, John Wick: Chapter 4, which is slated for release on May 21, 2021. Although no casting details were announced, the previous three installments starred Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, and Halle Berry. John Wick 3 starts off with Wick having a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild the High Table, Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Amazon has beaten out several buyers to take world rights to the Joseph Gordon-Levitt hijacking thriller 7500. Inception's Gordon-Levitt stars as the co-pilot of a plane hijacked by terrorists, with Patrick Vollrath directing from his own script.
ABC Studios International has teamed up with Endemol Shine to produce an adaptation of Holly Throsby’s novel, Goodwood, for Australian broadcaster ABC. The coming-of-age mystery/love story is written by Alison Bell and Sarah Scheller and is set in a small town which is torn apart when two of its residents go missing.
The season finale for Whiskey Cavalier ended up being the show's finale, as ABC pulled the plug on the series. There was some hope when ABC and the show’s producer, Warner Bros., were in talks to bring the series back, 11 days after ABC canceled the drama after one season, but the network ultimately decided to pass on a renewal. The show centers on tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase (codename: Whiskey Cavalier) who is assigned to work with CIA operative Francesca "Frankie" Trowbridge (codename: Fiery Tribune). Together, they lead an interagency team of flawed, funny and heroic spies.
Julia Stiles’s sun-soaked crime thriller, Riviera, is returning for a third season on Sky Atlantic. The British pay-TV broadcaster has ordered another eight-part run with filming set to start in Autumn 2019. Stiles plays Georgina Clios, a U.S. art curator who attempts to uncover the truth about her husband’s death.
David Bianchi (Westworld, MacGyver) and Alejandro Barrios (S.W.A.T., Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) are set to recur opposite Alice Braga in the upcoming fourth season of USA Network’s Queen of the South, based on the bestselling book La Reina del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It tells the story of Teresa Mendoza (Braga), a woman who is forced to run from the Mexican cartel and seek refuge in America.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Read or Dead hosts Katie McClean Horner and Rincey Abraham talked about Nora Roberts hitting a major milestone, more lists featuring just white authors, and some mysteries by Asian and Asian American authors.
Speaking of Mysteries welcomed Hilary Davidson to talk about One Small Sacrifice, her new crime fiction novel featuring NYPD Detective Sheryn Sterling.
Wrong Place, Write Crime host Frank Zafiro chatted with Brian Thornton who discussed his upcoming crime fiction anthology inspired by the music of Steely Dan, Die Behind the Wheel.
The Writer's Detective Bureau, hosted by veteran Police Detective Adam Richardson, covered "Dictating Reports, Domestic Violence, and The Third Degree."
Meet the Thriller Author spoke with Mike Gomes, author of the the Falau Files series, about his writing process and influences.
THEATER
The Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, announced the cast and crew of the ExxonMobil Summer Chills production, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, adapted by Ken Ludwig. Murder on the Orient Express runs July 19-August 25, 2019, on the Hubbard Theatre stage. Tickets are available now at alleytheatre.org.
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