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20th Century Fox has optioned the best-selling series Spy School by Stuart Gibbs and attached the author attached to write the screenplay based on the first title in the series. Spy School follows middle schooler Ben Ripley, who dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.
Golden Globe winner Maggie Gyllenhaal has teamed with Pie Films to acquire film rights to Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter, which will mark her Gyllenhaal's first outing as a director. The Lost Daughter follows a woman who experiences a seemingly meaningless event while on a beach vacation that causes her to be overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family. What begins as an apparently serene tale of a woman’s pleasant rediscovery of herself soon becomes a ferocious psychological thriller about a confrontation with an unsettled past.
Captain America's Chris Evans will co-star with Daniel Craig in Rian Johnson’s murder mystery movie Knives Out. Johnson, who wrote the script and is producing with partner Ram Bergman, will make the movie before directing a new trilogy in the Star Wars universe. Plot details on the film are largely being kept under wraps, although it's said to be a modern day murder mystery in the classic whodunit style.
Armie Hammer has joined Gal Gadot in the cast of Death on the Nile, 20th Century Fox’s follow-up to last year’s successful Agatha Christie adaptation Murder on the Orient Express. Kenneth Branagh returns to direct and star as master detective Hercule Poirot, and Orient Express scribe Michael Green is back to adapt. The book’s plot centers on Poirot investigating a murder during a luxurious cruise on the Nile River that he just happens to be on. But just as he identifies a motley collection of would-be killers, several of the suspects also meet their demise, which only deepens the mystery.
Ray Donovan's Eddie Marsan has come aboard the Fast & Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. Chris Morgan will serve as producer and screenwriter for the project that stars Johnson as U.S. Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs who forms an unlikely alliance with Statham’s Deckard Shaw. The film is scheduled to premiere Aug. 2, 2019.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
CBS has put in development Body Cam Cop, a drama series from Madam Secretary executive producer/writer David Grae and former CBS Entertainment president-turned-producer Glenn Geller. The story follows a cop whose heroism inadvertently lands him celebrity status after an on-the-job incident goes viral. He and his new partner are selected to be part of a pilot program that livestreams body cam footage to the public, but they soon find their lives have become more complicated.
Fox has given a script commitment to an untitled FBI cyber security drama from The Resident executive producer/showrunner Todd Harthan, former Prison Break executive producer Vaun Wilmott and 20th Century Fox TV. The project centers on FBI Director Dole Green, who is framed for a brazen, well-orchestrated attack at the agency headquarters where a treasure trove of classified data and agents identities is stolen in one of the worst attacks on national security in US history. With his career in shambles, Dole must fight to protect his family and get his life back through any means necessary.
J.K Rowling's (a/k/a Robert Galbraith) detective Cormoran Strike is heading back to the BBC with four new episodes of the crime drama known as Strike in the UK and C.B. Strike on HBO's sister network Cinemax.Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger will return as Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.
Nickelodeon announced its latest TV movie, titled Bixler High Private Eye, starring Jace Norman and Ariel Martin. The comedy tells the story of a young sleuth, Xander DeWitt, whose father suddenly goes missing. Xander’s mom then sends him to live with his grandfather — who used to be a private eye — but it’s in his father’s hometown where the mystery really picks up. Xander finds a surprising lead in the case and meets Kenzie Messina, played by Martin, who is a reporter for the school paper.
On the heels of Queen of the South's recent Season 3 finale, the crime drama has been renewed for a fourth season to premiere in 2019. Starring Alice Braga, Queen of the South is based on the bestselling book La Reina Del Sur by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and tells the powerful story of Teresa Mendoza (Braga), a woman who is forced to run from the Mexican cartel and seek refuge in America. In Season 3, Teresa strikes out on her own, determined to build a new empire for herself. But as enemies old and new close in, she realizes that being Queen will require more work and more sacrifice than she ever imagined.
Black Panther's Winston Duke is set to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in the Netflix crime drama Wonderland, adapted from the novel Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland, written by Ace Atkins. The book is part of the Spenser series, named after a fictional character in the series of detective novels initially written by American mystery writer Parker and later by Atkins. The story follows Spenser who, fresh out of prison, is sucked back into Boston’s underbelly as he uncovers the truth about a sensational murder and the twisted conspiracy behind it. Duke will play Hawk, Spenser’s close friend and an equally tough guy and enforcer with a shady past.
Lethal Weapon had barely gotten over the drama of one of the show's two main characters, Riggs (Clayne Crawford), being ousted from the show after the second season due to his reportedly volatile behavior was over, when the other main star of the show, Damon Wayans, added another shock. In an interview with Electronic Urban Report, Wayans announced that he is "going to be quitting the show in December, after we finish the initial 13 [episodes]."
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
This week's Kings River Life Magazine Mystery Rats Maze podcast features an excerpt from Cleo Coyle's novel The Ghost and Mrs. McClure: Book #1 of the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, read by actor Max Debbas.
The Crime Files podcast (via By Hodder & Stoughton, Headline Publishing Group & Quercus Books) has two new episodes, one looking at "The legacy of Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther series," and another with a look back at the Harrogate 2018 crime fiction festival.
DP Lyle's Criminal Mischief: The Art & Science of Crime Fiction took a look this week at "Making Characters Compliant."
Suspense Magazine's Beyond the Cover welcomed Lisa Unger to discuss her new psychological thriller Under My Skin.
Two Crime Writers and a Microphone hosts Steve Cavanagh and Luca Veste discussed bookshops in paradise, being billionaires, defending big companies on social media, and more. The special guests were the duo Chris Brookmyre and Dr. Marisa Haetzman, who make up the author Ambrose Parry, talking about writing as a duo, becoming a writer, and historical medical facts.
THEATER
Rebus: Long Shadows, the play based on Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series, opens tonight at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh with a run through Saturday, October 13. Adapted by Rona Murno and starring Charles Lawson as John Rebus, the story follows the Detective Inspector who is now retired. But the shadows of his former life still follow him through the streets of Edinburgh when the daughter of a murder victim appears outside his flat.
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