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
Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Cassel are set to lead the action thriller, Damaged, about a Chicago detective who goes to Scotland after an emerging serial killer’s crimes match those he investigated five years earlier—one of which was the crime scene of his murdered girlfriend. Also starring are Gianni Capaldi, Kate Dickie, and John Hannah, with Terry McDonagh (Killing Eve, Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad) taking on directing duties.
The Cannes Film Festival will give Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon its world premiere Saturday, May 20, in the Grand Théâtre Lumière. Based on David Grann’s best-selling book and written for the screen by Eric Roth and Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the "Reign of Terror."
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Paramount+ has greenlit a UK original drama series based on Sarah Pinborough’s thriller novel, Insomnia. Pinborough will adapt Insomnia for the screen. The story follows successful career woman, Emma Averill, who fears she is losing her mind after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before turning 40. Her mother had a similar experience at the same age, suffering a violent psychotic breakdown on the night of her 40th birthday. But even as she relives the experience of her mother, Averill believes other forces may be at work. Her mother is hospitalized with a sudden injury, her estranged sister returns without warning, and she feels as if she is being watched. Only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present.
Netflix has found the main cast for its limited series adaptation of the Elin Hilderbrand novel, The Perfect Couple, with headliners Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber, and supporting cast Eve Hewson, Billy Howle, Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy, Ishaan Khattar, Jack Reynor, Sam Nivola, Mia Issac, Donna Lynne Champlin, and Isabelle Adjani. The story centers on the nuptials of Amelia Sacks (Hewson) who is about to marry into one of the wealthiest families on Nantucket. Her disapproving future mother-in-law, famous novelist Greer Garrison Winbury (Kidman), has spared no expense in planning what promises to be the premiere wedding of the season—until a body turns up on the beach. As secrets come to light, the stage is set for a real-life investigation that feels plucked from the pages of one of Greer’s novels, and suddenly, everyone is a suspect.
Jessica Chastain will star in the Apple eight-part series, The Savant, from Anatomy of a Scandal co-creator, Melissa James Gibson. Chastain plays a top-secret investigator known as the Savant, who infiltrates online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. The series is based on a true story published by Cosmopolitan, which was written by Andrea Stanley, who will consult on the series.
Corbin Bernsen is set for a key recurring role opposite Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson in J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan’s HBO Max period drama, Duster. The series is set in 1972, when the first Black female FBI agent (Hilson) heads to the Southwest and recruits a gutsy getaway driver (Holloway) in a bold effort to take down a growing crime syndicate. Bernsen will play Wade Ellis, the father of Holloway’s character. Keith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunberg, Camille Guaty, Asivak Koostachin, Adriana Aluna Martinez, and Benjamin Charles Watson also star.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO
Criminal Element interviewed author Diane Kelly, whose cozy House-Flipper Mystery series continues with her most recent book, Primer and Punishment.
Two Crime Writers and a Microphone host Luca Vesta welcomed CL (Cally) Taylor to talk about her life and career in Newcastle, London, and Brighton, and her path toward becoming a writer of psychological thrillers.
On the Crime Cafe podcast, Debbi Mack interviewed crime writer, podcaster, and Kings River Life Magazine publisher, Lorie Lewis Ham.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club featured the first of their series of podcasts dedicated to the nominees for Agatha Awards, beginning with Joan Long who is nominated for Best First Novel for her book, The Finalist, and M.A. (Mary) Monin, who is nominated for Best First Novel for her book, Death In The Aegean.
All About Agatha chatted with debut author Kitty Murphy about the first book in her "Dublin Drag Mysteries" series, Death in Heels.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine podcast featured the Christmastime story of a woman, her cat, and revenge served with a dash of antifreeze, in Charlotte Hinger's "Lizzie Noel," from the November/December 2022 issue.
Crime Time FM host Paul Burke spoke with three authors about their latest novels, including Sarah Sultoon (Dirt); Ronnie Turner (So Pretty); and Vanda Symon (Expectant).
The latest episode of the Red Hot Chili Writers interviewed crime author Alis Hawkins; discussed Welsh Rebecca Riots, which took place between 1839 and 1843; chatted about Gwyl Crime Cymru, Wales's international crime fiction festival; and profiled some of history's most infamous poisoners.
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