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
Baby Driver star Lily James is set to headline director Phillip Noyce's film, Peggy Jo. James will play Peggy Jo Tallas, a real-life Texan who took to robbing banks while posing as a man. The story is "loosely based" on the true story account and was adapted for the screen by Appaloosa writer Robert Knott. The film project is described as a playful take on the films of the ’70s and ’80s and will specifically be filled with references to George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a film that the character Peggy Jo Tallas grew up admiring and inspired her to assume her famous alter-ego "Cowboy Bob" and begin robbing banks.
Olivia Munn is attached to star in the action feature, Replay, which will be introduced to buyers at this year's Cannes Virtual Marché, part of the "virtual" Cannes Film Festival that will take place instead of an on-site event due to Covid-19. Written and directed by Jimmy Loweree (Absence), Replay is the story of Erin Staffer, (Munn), whose husband is kidnapped and murdered. Now, armed only with illegal, bleeding-edge tech and a desperate plan, Erin must do everything in her power to change the past and save him.
Universal and Blumhouse are taking their Kevin Bacon-Amanda Seyfried psychological thriller, You Should Have Left, straight into homes on Friday, June 19 for a North American video-on-demand release. The pic was directed by Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible scribe David Koepp which he adapted from the German novel by Daniel Kehlmann. Bacon and Seyfried star as a couple seeking a restful vacation on an isolated edge of the world in the Welsh countryside. At first their vacation with their six-year-old daughter seems like a perfect retreat, but distorts into a perfect nightmare when Theo’s (Bacon) grasp on reality begins to unravel and he suspects that a sinister force within the house knows more than he or Susanna (Seyfried) have revealed, even to each other. You can check out the trailer via the above link.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
The U.K. production firm Castlefield has acquired the TV rights to Cara Hunter's bestselling crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Adam Fawley. Although the company has yet to find a home for the adaptation, it's planning the series around Hunter's four books, with each novel following DI Fawley as he investigates a domestic tragedy or crime that demands answers from the victim’s family and friends. In the first book, Close To Home, he looks into the disappearance of an eight-year-old girl from a family party.
The long-running docuseries, Cops, is ending its run on Paramount Network in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. The show premiered on Fox in 1989 and aired for 25 seasons then was resurrected in 2013 when Spike TV (since rebranded as Paramount Network) ordered new episodes. Likewise, A&E on June 5 pulled episodes of its hit docuseries Live PD due to the civil protests and a report that the March 2019 death of Javier Ambler during a police stop was allegedly captured by the Live PD crew but the video was destroyed.
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector will not be returning to NBC. The show, which launched in January, ran for 10 episodes and is based on Jeffrey Deaver’s Bone Collector book series. It starred Russell Hornsby as Lincoln Rhyme, a brilliant but hardheaded forensic criminologist who suffers near-fatal injuries while on the job, leaving him a tetraplegic. He nevertheless continues his work remotely, working with others to solve cases. It also starred Arielle Kebbel, Roslyn Ruff, Ramses Jimenez, Brooke Lyons, Tate Ellington, Brian F. O’Byrne, Courtney Grosbeck, and Michael Imperioli.
Also canceled was Hulu's femme fatale thriller, Reprisal, which won't return for a second season. Reprisal is a hyper-kinetic revenge tale following a relentless femme fatale (Abigail Spencer) who, after being left for dead, leads a vengeful campaign against a bombastic gang of gearheads. The show also starred Rodrigo Santoro, Mena Massoud, Madison Davenport, Rhys Wakefield, David Dastmalchian, W. Earl Brown, and Gilbert Owuor.
HBO has released the trailer for I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, its six-part documentary series about the hunt for the Golden State Killer undertaken by crime writer Michelle McNamara. Episode 1 debuts June 28 at 10 PM and new episodes debut each subsequent Sunday.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Author Faye Snowden joined Eric Beetner for co hosting duties on Writer Types as they talked with writers Nikki Dolson (Love and other Criminal Behavior) and Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians). Plus the Book People bookstore in Austin, Texas, had some staff picks to share.
Beyond The Cover chatted with bestselling author C.J. Tudor as she discussed her latest book, The Other People. Tudor is also the author of The Chalk Man, which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel and the Strand Magazine Award for Best Debut Novel.
Meet the Thriller Author spoke with T.R. Ragan (Theresa Ragan) about her writing process; the publishing industry; her Lizzy Gardner series; her new book in a new series, Don’t Make A Sound; and much more.
The latest Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast featured the first chapter of Death Over Easy by Maddie Day a/k/a Edith Maxwell, read by actor Julia Reimer
Wrong Place, Write Crime welcomed Tom Pitts to talk about his latest thriller, Coldwater.
My Favorite Detective Stories chatted with Michael Koryta, a former newspaper reporter and private investigator whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club welcomed Laurie R. King to talk about Riviera Gold, the 16th in her series featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes.
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