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
Austin Butler is set to star in Luca Guadagnino's new adaptation for Lionsgate of the book, American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis. While there had been rumors Jacob Elordi was being eyed to play Patrick Bateman, that casting didn’t come to pass. The film, which features a script by Scott Z. Burns (The Laundromat), will not be a remake of the 2000 film, but a new adaptation of Ellis’s novel. In the original movie, which came out in 2000 and is set in the 1980s, Christian Bale stars as Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie and serial killer.
Eddie Redmayne is set to join Julia Roberts in the Warner Bros. thriller, Panic Carefully. Elizabeth Olsen is also on board with Sam Esmail directing and writing the script. The film’s logline is being kept under wraps, although it's being described as a paranoid thriller in the vein of Esmail’s Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mr. Robot, as well as The Silence of the Lambs.
Eddie Marsan (Back to Black) and Éanna Hardwicke (Lakelands) are set to star in the upcoming Irish thriller, No Ordinary Heist, inspired by the largest cash heist in UK and Irish history. Colin McIvor (Zoo) will direct from a script he co-wrote with debut screenwriter Aisling Corristine. Inspired by true events that took place in Belfast in December 2004, No Ordinary Heist weaves a gripping fictional tale of two bank employees thrust into a chilling scheme. Forced to orchestrate a £26.5M ($33.8M) robbery to save their family, they are made to execute the crime without the gang ever setting foot inside the bank.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
A new incarnation of Prison Break has taken a major step toward becoming a reality at Hulu with a pilot pickup from Mayans M.C. and The Outlaws co-creator, Elgin James, and 20th Television. Details regarding the new installment’s plot are unknown, although it's said to be "its own thing set within the same universe" and is not expected to involve the characters at the center of the original series and its follow-up on Fox, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller), and Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell).
ITV has announced a new thriller from barrister and crime novelist, Imran Mahmood, which is a re-imagining of the crime and courtroom drama, Saviour. The story centers on Ben, the son of a police officer, who's charged with murder, and Indy, a criminal barrister, whose perfect world begins to crack when she takes on Ben's case and confronts police corruption, media scrutiny, and her own deeply buried secrets.
PODCASTS/RADIO
Speaking of Mysteries welcomed Sharon Short to talk about her latest book, Trouble Island, an Agatha Christie-esque And Then There Were None tale of deception, murder, isolation and bad weather set in the 1930’s on a small island in Lake Erie at the beginning of winter.
Cops and Writers chatted with J.D. Barker and Christine Daigle about navigating the ever-changing waters of publishing books and collaborating with other authors.
Crime Time FM featured "The Newcastle Noir Review Show" with Trevor Wood, Sam Holland, Antony Johnstone, Jo Furniss, Rob Parker, Michael Wood, and Paul Burke selecting some of their favorite crime novels of 2024 and looking ahead to 2025.
On Read or Dead, Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discussed their favorite books from 2024.
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