It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news:
THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Five-time Emmy-winner Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane, and Denise Richards have signed on to co-star opposite Adam Copeland in the heist thriller, Money Plane, directed by Andrew Lawrence. Co-written by Lawrence and Tim Schaaf, the indie follows a professional thief (Copeland) who must rob an underworld criminal casino on an airplane to settle a debt with his ruthless employer (Grammer). While the heist unfolds in midair, the second man on the ground (Jane) uncovers a sinister double cross that threatens everything.
Marisa Tomei has signed on to star alongside Jason Momoa and Isabela Merced in the Brian Andrew Mendoza-directed Netflix revenge feature, Sweet Girl. The story centers on a devastated husband (Momoa) who vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter (Merced). Also in the cast are Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Raza Jaffrey, Adria Arjona, Justin Bartha, Lex Scott Davis, Michael Raymond-James, Dominic Fumusa, Brian Howe, Nelson Franklin, and Reggie Lee.
Shea Whigham (Detective Burke in Joker) is joining both Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8. Director Christopher McQuarrie teased the role he’ll play with the words: "You won’t see him coming," although there were no explanations as to whether he'll be playing for or against Ethan Hunt’s next missions.
Filming is underway on the European thriller A Perfect Enemy, starring Tomasz Kot (Cold War), Athena Strates (The Good Liar), Marta Nieto (Madre) and Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). The English-language film is adapted from the novel Cosmétique de l’Ennemi by Amélie Nothomb, and follows a sophisticated and successful businessman who is approached in an airport by a chatty woman with sinister intentions.
The trailer for The Woman in the Window was released last week. Based on A.J. Finn’s psychological suspense thriller, the film stars Amy Adams as an agoraphobic woman who can't convince anyone she's seen a woman murdered in the apartment across the street.
The first trailer dropped for Tenet, Director Christoper Nolan mysterious "mind-bending thriller game." Although few details have been released about the film, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, and Kenneth Branagh and is set in the world of "international espionage." In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Nolan teased that the film crosses multiple genres and is without a doubt the "most ambitious" project he and producer Emma Thomas have ever made. Tenet is due in theaters July 17, 2020.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Doctor Who and The Catch star John Simm will star in an adaptation of Peter James’ Roy Grace crime novels from Endeavour creator Russell Lewis for ITV. Grace will comprise two feature-length episodes and will be based on James’ first two Roy Grace books, Dead Simple and Looking Good Dead, which introduce Brighton-based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job. Simm, who also starred in HBO’s first Game of Thrones prequel pilot, will play the tenacious detective.
CBS has assembled an all-female creative team for Cold Shoulder, a cop drama from Nina Tassler and Gail Berman, Little Women producer Denise Di Novi, Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante and former CSI: New York showrunner Pam Veasey. Written by Veasey, Cold Shoulder is based on the novel of the same name by La Plante about a police officer unable to prevent the death of her partner in the line of duty who seeks help from a fellow detective as she attempts to pick up the pieces of her broken life.
The CW has put in development Infamous, an action-drama from writers George Northy (Charmed) and Darren Stein (Jawbreaker), and Mike Tollin and his Tollin Productions. The project is a take on the thrilling spy drama with a modern, satirical celebrity twist inspired by the true stories of world-famous actors, models, and musicians who moonlighted as spies for the Allied Forces in WWII (including Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr and Josephine Baker).
The classic 1989s buddy cop comedy feature Turner & Hooch is getting a TV series remake for Disney+ from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and 20th Century Fox TV. Details about the series are scarce, but it is believed to be keeping the premise of the original movie, which starred Tom Hanks and revolved a police detective and his dog.
Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award winner Viola Davis, Rob Morgan (Just Mercy), and Aisling Franciosi (The Fall) are set to co-star opposite Sandra Bullock in the life-after incarceration Netflix film from director Nora Fingscheidt and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. Based on the 3-part British miniseries Unforgiven, the drama follows Ruth Slater (Bullock) who is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past. Facing severe judgment from the place she once called home, her only hope for redemption is finding the estranged younger sister she was forced to leave behind.
After taking over as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown and winning an Oscar for The Favourite, Olivia Colman is taking a far different turn to star as a killer in HBO and Sky's crime drama, Landscapers, written by her husband, Ed Sinclair. Landscapers is inspired by the true story of Susan and Christopher Edwards, a Mansfield, U.K., couple who were convicted in 2014 of killing Susan's parents and burying them in their back garden. The series is described as "a darkly comedic true-crime drama based on extensive research, hours of interviews, and direct access to the accused, who have always protested their innocence."
Karen Aldridge (The Get Down) is set as a series regular in the upcoming fourth installment of FX’s anthology series, Fargo, headlined by Chris Rock. Noah Hawley returns as director and showrunner for Season 4, which is set in 1950 in Kansas City, where two criminal syndicates — one Italian, led by Donatello Fadda, one African American, led by Loy Cannon (Rock) — have struck an uneasy peace.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Crime Cafe host Debbi Mack interviewed Dexter crime writer Jeff Lindsay about his new series featuring master thief Riley Wolfe.
Writer Types welcomed guest co-host Wendy Heard (author of The Kill Club) for chats with John Vercher (Three-Fifths) and Tori Eldridge (The Ninja Daughter). Plus, there was a meeting of the Writer Types book club with Dan & Kate Malmon.
Read or Dead hosts Katie McClean Horner and Rincey Abraham got into the holiday spirit by reading some holiday mystery books.
Wrong Place, Write Crime host Frank Zafiro spoke with Charles Salzberg about his Swann novels and Second Story Man.
Ellison Cooper was the special guest on It Was a dark and Stormy Book Club, discussing the suspense thriller, Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who's turned up the heat on a cold case.
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