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Mel Gibson is teaming up with Charlie Hunnam and Eiza Gonzalez for Waldo, the action-packed thriller from Brit filmmaker Tim Kirkby, best known for directing episodes of Veep. The film is based on the novel Last Looks by Howard Gould and follows the brilliant but disgraced former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo (Hunnam), currently living the life of a minimalist in the woods. His quiet life comes to a startling halt when he is roped back into working as a private eye to investigate the murder of an eccentric TV star’s wife.
Dev Patel has been set to make his feature directing debut with action revenge pic Monkey Man. The Oscar nominee will also star in the film, which follows the Kid (Patel) who emerges from prison to take on a world enmeshed in corporate greed and eroding spiritual values. Thunder Road producer Basil Iwanyk calls it a “vibrant, thrilling and above all entertaining story.”
A24 announced it has picked up North American rights to the war thriller, The Kill Team, starring Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgard. The project follows a young soldier in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan who witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians and considers reporting them to higher-ups as the heavily-armed, increasingly violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them.
Noomi Rapace (the Millennium series) has been set to star in the thriller The Secrets We Keep, which has Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad) also in talks to join. Yuval Adler will direct from a script by Ryan Covington. Rapace will play Maja, a woman rebuilding her life along with her husband Dobie in New York after WWII. When they encounter an eerily familiar man their life starts to unravel. They wonder, could this be the officer who was one of their chief tormentors at the concentration camp Birkenau all those years ago?
Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack O’Connell will play Bonnie and Clyde in Kike Maillo’s Love Is a Gun, based on the book Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by bestselling author Jeff Guinn. Oscar nominee Shelton Turner (Up in the Air) wrote the screenplay, while Johnny Newman (Narcos) added revisions. Parker and Barrow gained renown during the Great Depression as they committed multiple bank and store robberies from 1931 to 1935. They are believed to have killed at least nine police officers before they were slain in Louisiana.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
The Watch, based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, has landed an eight-part series order at BBC America. The network describes the show as a “punk rock thriller” inspired by the City Watch subset of Discworld novels. The character-driven series centers on Terry Pratchett’s misfit cops as they fight "to save a ramshackle city of normalized wrongness, from both the past and future in a perilous quest."
NBC has put in development Einstein, based on the popular German series, from writer Michael Reisz (Shadowhunters), Carol Mendelsohn, Tariq Jalil’s Intrigue Entertainment and Universal TV. Written by Reisz, Einstein follows a whip-smart, smooth-talking and illegitimate descendant of Albert Einstein who is recruited by the police for his skills at solving particularly complex cases.
The Disney-owned cable channel Freeform announced it's working on an adaptation of Stephen King's novel Joyland. The project tells the story of Devin, a college student who takes a summer job at an amusement park in a North Carolina tourist town where he confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child and the way both will change his life forever.
NBC has put in development an LAPD police drama from writer Kevin O’Hare, The Brave creator Dean Georgaris, Keshet Studios and Universal TV. Written and executive produced by O’Hare, the untitled project is based on police pilot programs in major U.S. cities. The drama follows an unlikely group of LAPD officers and detectives incentivized to live and become active members in the community they patrol, all in hopes of changing perceptions and reducing violence.
BBC Studios is developing a high-end drama based on the real-life story behind the murderous Lady Macbeth, which is set before the Shakespeare play and tells the epic and violent tale of Lady Macbeth from the female perspective, when she was Gruoch Ingen Boite, married to Gille Coemgáin, the King of Mormaer.
McMafia producer Cuba Pictures is developing a TV adaptation of Lesley Kara's debut novel, The Rumour, a story loosely based on the real-life case of British child killer Mary Kill. The book, which is set to be published in December, starts when single mother Joanna hears a rumor at the school gates that a notorious child killer is living under a new identity in their sleepy little town of Flinstead-on-Sea. How dangerous can one rumor become? And how far will Joanna go to protect her loved ones from harm when she realizes what she’s unleashed?
Ryan Hansen is officially on board for Hulu’s Veronica Mars revival reprising his role of Rick Casablancas. He joins star Kristen Bell and series creator Rob Thomas, along with a slew of other show alums, for the streamer’s eight-episode run.
William Shatner is returning at the host of Rescue 911, a reboot of the CBS series that ran from 1989 to 1996. The show featured real footage and reenactments of 911 call emergencies, and the new version would have some updates, including a new weekly, two-hour format offering a live look at first responders taking real emergency calls every week.
Investigation Discovery has ordered a six-part crime series about cold case murders in small towns from British producer Britespark Films. Welcome To Murdertown follows the baffling murder mysteries where it’s not just one person who’s hiding something – it’s everybody. From small towns and tight-lipped communities to tight-knit families, investigators must penetrate a wall of silence to crack the case.
HBO released a trailer for the upcoming third season of True Detective, which stars Mahershala Ali as an Arkansas police detective who can’t stop thinking about the two children who went missing 30 years prior. Costarring with Ali is Stephen Dorff as Hays’ partner on the case.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
Crimereads profiled the event in 1958 when the BBC asked Ian Fleming to “interview” his eminent friend, Raymond Chandler, on Chandler’s 70th birthday. The interview is broken down into four audio segments with some of the transcripts.
Speaking of Mysteries welcomed Henry Porter to chat about Firefly, his new novel which is a classic thriller—with a twist.
Lynda La Plante has shaped crime fiction writing over the course of the last 35 years, and she spoke with the Ray Darcy Show about her enduring career.
In the latest edition of Crime Cafe, host Debbi Mack spoke with David Malcolm about his novel, The German Messenger, a historical espionage story.
Crime Novelist and The Deuce Creator George Pelecanos stopped by Wisconsin Public Radio to discuss his latest novel, The Man Who Came Uptown, and the author's history of using blue-collar stories in his work.
D.P. Lyle's latest episode of his podcast, CRIMINAL MISCHIEF: The Art & Science of Crime Fiction, focused on "Famous and Odd DNA Cases."
Lea Wait was the featured guest on Destination Mystery. Wait is the author of historical books for young people and the cozy Antique Print Mystery Series for adults.
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