MOVIES
New Line Cinema picked up the unique superhero-crime project Pulse, based on an upcoming novel by Michael Harvey. The story follows a teenager investigating the murder of his older brother alongside the police. During this period, and with the help of a mysterious mentor, the young man begins developing a unique ability that helps him uncover the truth and protect himself along the way.
Charlie Gillespie has been cast in Cigarette (f/k/a Speed Kills), the upcoming biopic starring John Travolta as Don Aronow, the speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire who created the Cigarette and other famous speedboats. Aronow lived a double life, which landed him in trouble with the law and drug lords. Gillespie will play Ben Aronow, Don’s teenage son who desperately tries to reconnect with his father.
The rumors around the next Bond film continue to swirl. According to one report, James Bond will travel to Croatia in the 25th installment of the 007 franchise (wt Shatterhand), in which Daniel Craig's spy battles a blind supervillain. Christoph Waltz and Dave Bautista will allegedly be reprising their roles as Spectre villains after provisionally agreeing to do the next blockbuster. The film is scheduled to hit cinemas in November 2019.
MGM released the first full trailer for the Bruce Willis-starrer Death Wish, a remake of the gritty Charles Bronson ’70s classic, with Willis taking the role of Dr. Paul Kersey who seeks revenge when his family is attacked.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Miami Vice is eyeing a return to NBC, after the network put in development a reboot of its signature 1980s action crime drama, with the Fast & Furious duo of Vin Diesel and Chris Morgan producing. The original series starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It quickly became a pop culture phenom and ran on NBC for five seasons from 1984-89.
Empire co-creator Danny Strong and writer David Elliot have sold a new legal drama project to FOX, titled Infamy. To be written by Elliot, the script plus penalty commitment for the hourlong pilot, which is said to be a female-led legal drama that focuses on a law firm specializing in tackling wrongful conviction cases and exonerating the innocent.
CBS All Access gave the greenlight to several new shows including $1, a mystery/thriller set in a small rustbelt town in post-recession America, where a one-dollar bill changing hands connects a group of characters involved in a shocking multiple murder. "The path of the dollar bill, and point of view in each episode, paints a picture of a modern American town with deep class and cultural divides that spill out into the open as the town’s secrets get revealed."
WGN America is making another move into the original scripted arena after buying the Canadian drama series Bellevue, starring and executive produced by Anna Paquin. The eight-episode detective drama, set in a blue-collar Canadian town, was created by actress-turned-writer Jane Maggs and director Adrienne Mitchell and also stars Shawn Doyle (Fargo) and Allen Leech (Downton Abbey).
Oscar winner Marlee Matlin has joined the Season 3 cast of ABC’s Quantico. She'll will play Jocelyn Turner, an ex-FBI agent known at one time as the best undercover agent in the field until a bomb blast rendered her deaf. The FBI put her out to pasture, but now she’s being brought back to join a special unit with several other returning characters. (Series regulars Priyanka Chopra, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy and Blair Underwood are also returning for the third season.)
Michael Ironside (Total Recall) is set for a key recurring role on TNT’s upcoming straight-to-series drama The Alienist, playing J.P. Morgan, the famous American financier and banker. The psychological thriller drama is set in 1896, when a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes has gripped the city, and newly appointed top cop Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), a criminal psychologist — aka alienist — and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Luke Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret.
Deep State, Fox Networks Group’s first regional scripted commission for Europe and Africa, has added new cast and released a first-look photo as production moves to London. Mark Strong is starring in the eight-part series playing an ex-spy brought back into the game to avenge the death of his son, only to find himself at the heart of a covert intelligence war and a conspiracy to profit from the spread of chaos throughout the Middle East. The new cast hires include Alistair Petrie (Genius, The Night Manager), Anastasia Griffith (Royal Pains, Damages), Amelia Bullmore (Happy Valley), Kingsley Ben-Adir (King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword), Pip Torrens (The Crown) and Fares Fares (Tyrant).
Criminal Minds Season 13 Is bringing back one of its craziest killers, actor Jamie Kennedy, who is returning to reprise his role of the canni
balistic serial killer Floyd Feylinn Ferell, who last appeared in Season 3.
Nia Long has joined the cast of CBS’ veteran crime drama series NCIS: Los Angeles as a series regular. She will be introduced in the ninth-season premiere on Sunday, October 1. Long will play Shay Mosely, the team’s new executive assistant director, a character who will fill the void left by the death of NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger (played on the show for five seasons by the late Miguel Ferrer).
Netflix has released the official trailer for the third season of drug cartel drama Narcos, which will see the DEA turn its attention to the powerful Cali Cartel and its four Kings.
The trailer for Season 3 of USA’s Mr. Robot is here and heralds a darker turn for the series. The third season will debut Wednesday, October 11.
If you like your crime fiction on the light-hearted side, The Guardian profiled a new series available via Amazon Streaming, titled Comrade Detective. It’s supposedly a re-mastered and dubbed 1980's Romanian communist buddy cop TV show. But Instead, it’s an "astonishingly high-concept Amazon comedy; a detective spoof written in English, then filmed in Romania with real Romanian actors speaking Romanian, then dubbed back into English using the voices of people like Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jenny Slate, Kim Basinger and Jason Mantzoukas."
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Kate Raphael, host of KPFA's Women’s Magazine podcast and author of two mysteries set in Palestine, talked with crime and suspense writers Judith (JL) Newton (Oink! A Food for Thought Mystery), Amy S. Peele (Cut! A Medical Mystery) and Jennifer Dwight (The Tolling of Mercedes Bell). The four will also be part of a She Writes Mystery tour beginning Friday, August 4.
In the latest A Stab in the Dark podcast, host Mark Billingham chatted with Karin Slaughter about her roots in America's Deep South, how some of the true-life cases from the region have influenced her work, and her new book, The Good Daughter.
THEATER
A Simon Phillips theatrical adaptation of the Hitchcock classic thriller North By Northwest, first seen in Melbourne in 2015, is currently playing at the UK's Theatre Royal Bath through Saturday, August 12. Guardian critic Michael Billington was skeptical at first that such an iconic movie could be re-created on the stage, but he admits this partciular production is "playful, smart and ingenious."
The national tour of the Tony Award-winning adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is taking it to the Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre with a run through September 10. The story centers on a 15-year old boy with Asperger's who becomes a suspect in the murder of his neighbor's dog and embarks on an extraordinary journey that pits this amateur detective against the murder mystery culprit.
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