THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Daisy Ridley is in talks to star in the psychological thriller, The Ice Beneath Her, that STX Entertainment acquired in a bidding war and will finance. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella — the filmmaker trio collective known as Radio Silence behind the 2019 thriller, Ready or Not — will direct and produce. The Ice Beneath Her is based on a 2015 novel by Swedish author Camilla Grebe and follows a criminal profiler brought in to help solve a murder case that bares a resemblance to a previously unsolved murder from 10 years earlier.
Signature Entertainment has acquired global rights, excluding North America, to the crime-thriller, Blood And Money, starring Oscar-nominee Tom Berenger (Platoon). The story centers on a retired veteran who discovers a dead body and a bag full of cash while he's hunting in the snowy outback of Northern Maine. Violence quickly escalates when a group of hardened criminals in search of the loot turn the hunter into the hunted in an already stark and deadly wilderness.
Director-screenwriter-producer James Wan is prepping a film adaptation of Frank M. Robinson’s time travel story, Hunting Season, with Transformers producer Don Murphy and John Wick franchise writer Derek Kolstad on board to script. The story follows a law officer who is sent back to the past where he must acclimate in order to survive after he's deemed an enemy of the state and faces execution.
Manhunt co-creator Andrew Sodroski has been hired to adapt the screenplay (based on a pitch from Past Midnight writer T.J. Fixman) for the action-thriller, Rogue, which Dean Israelite (Power Rangers) is set to direct. The film project revolves around a deep-cover CIA operative who is on the longest night of her life.
Quiver Distribution and Redbox Entertainment have picked up North American distribution rights to Becky, a thriller starring Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, and Joel McHale. Originally set to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival from April 15-26 (before its cancellation due to the pandemic), it will now get a digital and on-demand release on June 5. Directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, the plot centers on spunky and rebellious Becky (Wilson) who is brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father Jeff (McHale) in an effort to try to reconnect. The trip immediately takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts on the run, led by the merciless Dominick (James), suddenly invade the lake house.
Film premiere dates keep slipping due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the latest changes are John Wick 4, which will no longer open on May 21, 2021 but rather on May 27, 2022, Memorial Day weekend; and the Deon Taylor-directed Hilary Swank thriller, Fatale, which will stay in 2020 but switch from June 19 to Oct. 30. Wick 4 will continue the adventures of Keanu Reeves's hitman saga, while Fatale centers on a married man who finds himself living a nightmare as he is relentlessly compromised, out-witted, and morally manipulated by a mysterious woman with whom he had a wild one-night stand.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
In a big shocker, The Lincoln Lawyer is not moving ahead at CBS. The high-profile legal drama from The Practice creator David E. Kelley, based on Michael Connelly’s series of bestselling novels, had sold to the network a year ago and was in final stages of pre-production with the cast assembled and two scripts written. Once CBS settles the penalty for cancellation, the producers will likely shop the series elsewhere. The Lincoln Lawyer centers on Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist, who runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles.
STX is developing Fast and Loose with 87North, the production label of Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch and EP Kelly McCormick. The project follows a man who wakes up in Tijuana after being left for dead with absolutely no memory. As he follows a string of clues to uncover his identity, he discovers that he’s been living two different lives: one, as a super-successful Crime Kingpin, surrounded by beautiful women, expensive toys, and a lavish lifestyle, and the other as an undercover CIA agent, but with a puny salary, no family or home life whatsoever and zero trappings of success. The problem is, he can’t remember which of these two personas is his true identity.
Netflix and SF Studios have set the cast for the streamer’s first Swedish feature, the action-thriller Red Dot, which will star Nanna Blondell, Anastasios Soulis, Tomas Bergström, Kalled Mustonen, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Thomas Hanzon, and Anna Azcárate. Set in the Swedish mountains, the film follows David (Soulis) and Nadja (Blondell), a couple in their late twenties, who’ve been struggling with their marriage and try to rekindle their romance in the north of Sweden with a ski hike. But a quarrel with two local hunters turns into a nightmare as the couple is forced to flee into the unforgiving wilderness pursued by reckless shooters.
There will not be a second season of the USA drama series Dare Me after the network opted to cancel the series. Producer UCP is said to be shopping the series to other outlets. Based on the novel by Megan Abbott, who serves as writer and executive producer along with Gina Fattore, Dare Me is described as an unflinching exploration of teen angst, jealousy, loyalty, and the dynamics of power in a small Midwestern town.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO
A new episode of Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast included the first chapter of "They Tell Me You Are Cunning" by David Hagerty, read by actor Thomas Nance.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine podcast featured the story “Collector’s Find” by V. S. Kemanis, a former lawyer with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office who often writes fiction with legal themes.
On the latest edition of Writer Types, special guest co-hosts E.A. Aymar and Sarah Chen spoke with authors Sheena Kamal (Never Go Back) and Matthew Quirk (Hour of the Assassin).
Speaking of Mysteries welcomed Andrew Mayne to chat about The Girl Beneath the Sea, his new novel featuring Sloan McPherson, an evidence-recovery diver for Lauderdale Shores PD.
Beyond The Cover spoke with #1 Bestselling Author Charlaine Harris.
Meet the Thriller Author featured Jason Pinter, bestselling author of Hide Away, the first Rachel Marin novel, as well as five novels in his Henry Parker thriller series and the standalone novel The Castle.
Chris Rhatigan stopped by The Wrong Place, Write Crime podcast to discuss the fine art of editing crime fiction.
Writer's Detective Bureau, hosted by veteran Police Detective Adam Richardson, tackled questions about police officers carrying their own firearms on-duty and how a victim might get special protection.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club welcomed two Agatha Award nominees, Gabriel Valjan and Connie Berry.
The latest guest on The Tartan Noir show was James Oswald (of the Inspector McLean series and The Ballad of Sir Benfro series), talking about splitting his time between writing and farming; the show also spoke with Peter Robinson, Mari Hannah, and MW Craven about their detectives and story locations.
Two Crime Writers and a Microphone celebrated their one hundredth episode with guest author Val McDermid, discussing how to reach readers in different ways, being in the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, hearing voices, and more.
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