THE BIG SCREEN
Fox won a heated auction for a new project that will reunite Ben Affleck (as director) and Matt Damon, who is set to star. The film is based on a true crime story, written by Jeff Maysh and published in The Daily Beast, about an ex-cop who rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game, allegedly stealing over $24 million dollars and sharing it with an unsavory group of co-conspirators who offered kickbacks to the mastermind. Solid detective work unearthed Jerry Jacobson, a head of security for a Los Angeles company responsible for generating the game pieces and led to a wide conspiracy that involved mobsters, psychic, strip-club owners, drug traffickers and a family of Mormons who falsely claimed to have won more than $24 million in cash and prizes.
Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell are set to star in War Pigs, a Millennium Films action thriller that Tommy Wirkola will direct. Scripted by Nick Ball and John Niven, the project centers on a group of disillusioned ex-marines who go on one last mission to get revenge on the cartel that murdered one of their own while making off with millions of dollars in drug money. Farrell plays Drex and Gibson plays The Pastor.
The San Diego noir film festival is focusing on movies with a San Diego connection, with showings each Thursday evening through August. The series complements the yearlong noir film series at Digital Gym Cinema called Noir on the Boulevard. Here's the upcoming lineup to be shown at La Jolla Athenaeum's Flicks on the Bricks: Tension (1949); The Brothers Rico (1957); The Grifters (1990)
A trailer was released for the thriller Lizzie, starring Chloë Sevigny as the titular suspected murderess, Lizzie Borden, which takes a closer look at her relationship with Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), the maid who testified at Borden's trial before she was deemed not guilty.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Hulu has given a pilot order to an adaptation of Less Than Zero, based on Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name. Adapted by Craig Wright, Less Than Zero follows a college freshman (Austin Abrams) returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend and his friend who struggles with addiction. Less Than Zero presents a look at the culture of wealthy, decadent youth in Los Angeles.
Acorn TV has greenlit Queens of Mystery, created by Julian Unthank, a writer on popular British dramas Doc Martin and New Tricks. The offbeat drama series is about a perennially single female detective and her three crime-writer aunts, who help her solve murders while setting her up on dates. It will run as three feature-length episodes on Acorn TV and also be available as a six-part series.
Fargo creator Noah Hawley is moving forward with a fourth round of his Emmy-winning series, with the new season toplined by Chris Rock who’ll play the head of a crime family. Rock’s character has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy in a deal with the devil to get ahead in the business, and in turn must raise his son’s enemy as his own. Then the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies. And everything changes.
HBO Latin America has greenlit a second season of Argentine thriller series The Bronze Garden (El Jardin de Bronce), which has aired across 50 HBO international markets, including HBO Spain and HBO Nordic. The eight-episode thriller centered on an architect in desperate search for his four-year-old daughter who vanished with her babysitter in a Buenos Aires subway. He is aided by a brilliant, if unconventional, private detective.
Oscar winner Timothy Hutton has signed on as a series regular for the upcoming fifth season of ABC’s legal thriller drama series How To Get Away With Murder. Per standard Shondaland practice, no details about Hutton’s storyline are being revealed. Per ABC’s logline: a new mystery involving one of their own will unfold, as relationships are fractured and new secrets are exposed.
House of Cards’ Michael Kelly has been cast in the second season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan as a series regular, joining previously announced Noomi Rapace and John Hoogenakker. The series is a reinvention with a modern sensibility of the famed and lauded Tom Clancy hero, starring John Krasinski and Abbie Cornish. It centers on Jack Ryan (Krasinski), an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time. He uncovers a pattern in terrorist communications that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.
Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy, Bates Motel) is joining the cast of Amazon drama series Bosch for the upcoming fifth season. Hurst will play Hector Bonner, a former client of attorney Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers), currently working as her investigator. Bosch is based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels and stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch.
AMC has announced their new spy thriller The Little Drummer Girl will premiere this November, although no official date has been set. The six part miniseries will be based off of John Le Carre’s novel of the same name and is set to star award winning Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood), Oscar nominated Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) and BAFTA nominee Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth).
A trailer was released for the second season of Audience Networks's adaptation of Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes. Brendan Gleeson stars as Bill Hodges, a retired detective taunted by precocious, superintelligent serial killer Brady Hartsfield (Harry Treadaway). Now, Brady is in a vegetative state and gone... but a medical experiment may bring him back in unexpected ways.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Meet the Thriller Author welcomed Ellison Cooper, an author with a background in archaeology, cultural neuroscience, ancient religion, colonialism, and human rights whose debut novel, Caged, has been listed as one of the "Best Summer Reads for 2018" by Publishers Weekly.
Author Debbi Mack interviewed crime fiction and noir author Jason Michel on the Crime Cafe podcast.
Crime Syndicate is back after a month off as Michael Pool hosts crime fiction author Mike McCrary reading from and discussing his latest, a psychological thriller titled Relentless.
THEATRE
Cambridge Arts Theatre and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre announced John Stahl and Cathy Tyson will join Charles Lawson (in the titular role) in Rebus: Long Shadows, a brand new Rebus story written exclusively for the stage by author of the original novels, Ian Rankin, and playwright Rona Munro. The production premieres at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Thursday September 20 and will then tour in the UK to Edinburgh, Malvern, Nottingham, Manchester, Northampton, and Aberdeen before completing its run in Guildford on November 24.
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park will begin the 2018-2019 season with an adaptation of the Stephen King thriller Misery in the Marx Theatre. Adapted by the celebrated screenwriter William Goldman, true-life becomes stranger than fiction when an acclaimed romance novelist, Paul Sheldon, wakes up in the home of his "Number One Fan." This "spine-tingling stage adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel benefits from the immediacy of the theatre and traps you in a tense cat-and-mouse game that will grip you until the very end." The production runs September 1-29.
The Colin McIntyre Classic Thriller Season is up and running at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, with four mysteries being lined up over the next month. Starting the season is Peter Gordon’s play Sleighed To Death, running from Tuesday, July 31-Saturday, August 4. The rest of the season continues with A Touch of Danger by Francis Durbridge, from August 7-11; Louise Page’s adaptation of Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, from August 14-18; and John Goodrum’s adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Nightmare Room, from August 21-25.
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