Julia Roberts is set to star in Fool Me Once, an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s just-published thriller. The story centers on Maya (Roberts), a Special Ops pilot just home from war who sees something on her nannycam that she can’t understand: her 2-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe — who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier.
Jeremy Saulnier is taking on helming duties for the 20th Century Fox spy thriller Defection. Saulnier will be working from a script by Ken Nolan described as being "cut from the same cloth as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but set in an Edward Snowden era." Defection tells the story of a broken down CIA case officer who uses his calculated Cold War training to go after a mid-level CIA intelligence contractor who has defected to North Korea and has taken a mysterious suitcase with him.
Principal photography has begun in Park City, Utah, on Wind River, the feature directing debut of Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan that stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. The film follows a rookie female FBI agent (Olsen) who teams up with a veteran local game tracker with a haunted past (Renner) to investigate a murder on a remote Native American reservation in the hope of avenging the girl’s death.
Doug Liman (The Edge of Tomorrow) is in negotiations to direct the sniper thriller The Wall for Amazon Studio. Dwain Worrell wrote the screenplay, which was the first spec script bought by Amazon and follows a sniper and his spotter who are pinned down behind a chunk of wall by a legendary sniper.
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney is taking on narrative moviemaking via the real-life political thriller The Action, penned by The Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter Scott Burns. The plot centers on eight anti-war activists who stole and made public classified FBI documents that exposed J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign of spying on and blackmailing troublemakers.
Kevin Bacon has signed on to star in Patriots Day, the CBS Films and Lionsgate pic about the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Bacon (who co-starred as an FBI agent in last year’s Black Mass) will play Richard DesLauriers, the Bureau’s special agent in charge and one of the law-enforcement figures involved with the manhunt for the bombers who carried out the attacks on the city’s annual race.
TELEVISION
HBO has landed the adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, starring Amy Adams, handing out an eight-episode order with the potential for a second season. Sharp Objects centers on reporter Camille Preaker (Adams) — fresh from a brief stay at a psychiatric hospital — who faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls and finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too strongly.
Castle’s Andrew Marlowe and Terri Miller are taking on Take Two, described as a "fun and witty" crime series. The LA-based dramedy follows private investigator Eddie Valetik, who hires Emma Swift, the fresh-out-of-rehab former star of a hit cop show to appear in his late-night TV ads. When calls flood in to hire Emma, she takes on the role of his partner, drawing on her acting skills and the numerous plots she’s experienced in her TV series to help solve their cases.
A Blacklist spinoff starring Famke Janssen in the works at NBC, airing as a back-door pilot on the parent shot on May 12. Directed by Justified's Michael Dinner, the project's plot details are being kept under wraps but it will star Famke Janssen (X-Men, How to Get Away With Murder) as Susan "Scottie" Halsted, with more of the cast to be announced later.
Amazon announced that its original police procedural series Bosch, based on the Michael Connelly novels, will receive a third season. Bosch follows renegade detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) as he cleans up the streets of Hollywood.
Johnny Kostrey has landed a recurring role on Season 2 of NBC’s Aquarius, the gritty 1960s drama that focuses on a cop (David Duchovny) who goes undercover to track Charles Manson and the Manson Family before their infamous murder spree. Kostrey will play Voytek Frykowski, a loyal friend of director Roman Polanski and an ultimate victim of the Manson Family’s Cielo Drive murders.
Samuel Barnett (Jupiter Ascending) has been cast as the lead opposite Elijah Wood's sidekick assistant Todd in Dirk Gently, BBC America’s eight-episode series based on the cult Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency novels by Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently is a comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently (Barnett) and his reluctant assistant Todd as they wend their way through one big, seemingly insane mystery a season, crossing unlikely paths with a bevy of wild and sometimes dangerous characters.
Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) has joined the cast of ABC’s new thriller drama series The Catch from Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland production company. Details about her character are sketchy, but she may be playing Leah Wells, a neurotic but formidable counterfeiter.
Addison Timlin (Californication) has been cast as the female lead opposite Lucas Till in CBS’ drama pilot MacGyver, the reimagining of t
he 1985 series. The pilot, co-written by Paul Downs Colaizzo and Brett Mahoney and directed by David Von Ancken, features twentysomething Angus MacGyver (Till), who is recruited into the clandestine organization from the original series where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters. Timlin will play Mickey, an app developer who’s aggressively progressive in her political views, with a soft spot for MacGyver. Michelle Krusiec was also added to the cast to play Agent Croix who works for Homeland Security.
The BBC announced that Tim Roth and Samantha Morton have been cast in a new three part series of Rillington Place, which will be filmed in Scotland and London. The drama is based on the real-life multiple murders undertaken by John Christie in Notting Hill in the 1940s and '50s. The subsequent tragic miscarriage of justice, which led to Timothy Evans being hanged for a crime he did not commit, contributed towards the abolition of capital punishment in Britain.
ITV has commissioned an eight-part conspiracy thriller Paranoid, which tells the story of a female GP who is murdered in a rural children’s playground with an abundance of eyewitnesses. A group of detectives embark on what seems to be a straightforward murder investigation, but as they delve deeper into the case they are quickly drawn into the twists and turns of an ever-darkening mystery, which takes them unexpectedly across Europe. The cast of detectives will be played by Neil Stuke, Indira Varma, Dino Fetscher, and Robert Glenister.
Acorn TV acquired a new six-part, cinematic noir thriller Jack Irish that is based on the novels of Peter Temple and debuts on May 2. Acorn also reported April 25 as the season 9 premiere of Murdoch Mysteries, which follows the brilliant detective William Murdoch (played by Yannick Bisson), a pioneer of crime-solving technologies in Edwardian-era Toronto. Murdoch is based on the novels of Maureen Jennings.
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders has hired ER vet Sherry Stringfield to join CBS’ just-launched spinoff as the longtime wife of Gary Sinise’s Unit Chief Jack Garrett. Karen is described as "a supportive wife and dedicated mother to the couple’s five children." Their oldest kid, Ryan, is a young recruit for the FBI, and their middle daughter, Josie, is heading into her freshman year at USC.
Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford has landed a pivotal recurring role on Quantico, appearing in a multi-episode arc as Laura (read the full article if you don't mind reading spoilers from recent episodes).
TNT has finalized its plans for summer, reporting that the seventh and final season of Rizzoli & Isles will premiere June 6, followed by Season 5 of Major Crimes on June 13.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
The Today Show chatted with Harlan Coben, author of his latest thriller, Fool Me Once.
WAMC discussed the long and colorful history of American crime writing with Harold Schecter, professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the editor of the Library of America's True Crime volume. A writer of true crime fiction himself, Harold recently served as the scholar-advisor for the New York Council's new Reading and Discussion series "True Crime an American Genre."
Crime and Science Radio welcomed Dr. Katherine A. Roberts, Director of the CSULA Graduate Program in Criminalistics, to talk about research, education, and the future of forensic science.
The Suspense Radio podcast featured authors David Putnam and Elizabeth Heiter.
Author Angela Misri joined CrimeFiction FM to discuss her new book, the third in her Portia Adams mystery series, No Matter How Improbable.
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