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
Academy Award nominee, Amy Ryan, is joining the cast of the Apple Original Films thriller Wolves (working title) starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, that will be written, directed, and produced by Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home). Ryan’s role is being kept under wraps, but the film will star Clooney and Pitt as two fixers who prefer to work alone but find themselves assigned to the same job. Ryan was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2007 for her performance in Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Hulu is developing The Midcoast, a drama series based on Adam White’s bestselling novel, from Escape at Dannemora co-creator Brett Johnson, The Littlefield Company, and 20th Television. With a script adaptation by Johnson, The Midcoast is an hourlong drama set on the scenic coast of Maine exploring the rise and fall of Ed Thatch, a lobster fisherman turned blue collar criminal with an unstable devotion to his wife. From the blurb, the story "explores the machinations of privilege, the dark recesses of the American dream, and the lies we tell as we try, at all costs, to protect the ones we love."
Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit) and Elizabeth Marvel (The Dropout) have been tapped to star opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga in Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series from David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. Additionally, Greg Yaitanes (House of the Dragon) has come on board as director on the series alongside Anne Sewitsky. Inspired by Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller, Presumed Innocent is the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorneys’ office when one of its own is suspected of the crime. The book was published in 1987 and was turned into a 1990 feature starring Harrison Ford in the role Gyllenhaal is taking on.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO
A new Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast is up featuring something a bit different, an excerpt from a sci-fi novel that has a mystery side to it, "The Path" by Peter Riva, read by actor Terrance McArthur.
Crime Time FM host, Paul Burke, spoke with the director of American Murderer, Matthew Gentile, about the movie starring Tom Pelphrey and Ryan Philippe, which is based on a true story about a dogged FBI agent determined to take down a charismatic con man.
On the latest episode of It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club, Missy, Tracey, and Ann talked about a few of the new movies they enjoyed over the past few weeks. Each of these movies is currently available on Netflix including The Glass Onion and more.
On Read or Dead, Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discussed cozy mystery novels.
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