THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
The Avengers' Anthony Mackie will star in and produce an action film for Netflix from Madison Turner, a former stuntman-turned-screenwriter. Mackie will play a character named Xavier Rhodes in The Ogun, a man who brings his teenage daughter to Nigeria to find a cure for the rare genetic condition that he passed on to her. But when his daughter is kidnapped, Rhodes goes on a rampage through the criminal underworld to find her before it’s too late, testing his powers to the limit.
HanWay Films has closed a string of international pre-sales on Phillip Noyce’s true-crime love story, Peggy Jo, which is set to star Lily James. James will play the title character, a bank robber who committed her heists while dressed as a man. Loosely based on the true story of the real-life Peggy Jo, the project is being pitched as "Bonnie without the Clyde" and has been adapted for screen by Appaloosa writer Robert Knott. The project is due to shoot in the U.S., but dates have not been revealed.
Although the James Bond action-thriller, No Time to Die, won't be out until April 2, 2021, Billie Eilish’s theme song for the much-delayed film received a Grammy Award nomination last week. Eilish’s single dropped October 1 in anticipation of the originally scheduled November release, which made it eligible for this year’s Grammys.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
Fox is developing a crime drama based on the true-life experiences of professional medium, Tina Powers. Written by Michael Alaimo, the untitled project is described as a breezy procedural, in which a quirky TV news crime reporter starts listening to the voices she hears from beyond the grave in order to help Miami’s finest solve crimes.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Blindspot) has been tapped for a new series regular role opposite John Krasinski in the upcoming third season of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a co-production of Amazon Studios, Paramount Television Studios, and Skydance Television. Jean-Baptiste will play Elizabeth Wright, the Chief of Station. Filming on the new season is expected to begin in 2021.
Kerry O’Malley and Cynthia Quiles are the latest actors to join the second season of CBS All Access’s Why Women Kill. This new season of the dark comedy features a new ensemble cast with storylines set in 1949 that will explore what it means to be beautiful; the hidden truth behind the faรงades people present to the world; the effects of being ignored and overlooked by society; and finally, the lengths one woman will go to in order to finally belong.
On December 4 at 9pm, More4, the British free-to-air television channel owned by Channel Four, will begin airing The Nordic Murders. The German crime drama, set on the island of Usedom on the Baltic Sea, focuses on a daugher and her estranged mother (recently released from prison for murdering her husband) who form an investigative team despite their wariness toward each other. (HT to Crime Fiction Lover)
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO
A new Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast is up, featuring the mystery short story "No More Excuses" by Guy Belleranti, read by actor Sean Hopper
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club welcomed Leslie Rule to discuss her true crime debut, A Tangled Web, which covers a frightening Omaha love-triangle murder.
The Writer's Detective Bureau host, veteran Police Detective Adam Richardson, answered questions about "Internal Affairs, Hold-Backs, and PSD Work."
Gray Basnight joined Wrong Place, Write Crime host, Frank Zafiro, to discuss his latest Sam Teagarden novel, The Madness of the Q.
The featured guest on Meet the Thriller Author was Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founder of The Mysterious Press, and a man regarded as the world’s foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction.
Suspense Radio chatted with author Drew Murray about Broken Genius, his latest book featuring FBI Cyber Division Special Agent Will Parker.
This week's Speaking of Mysteries focused on They’re Gone, the new thriller by E. A. Aymar, writing as E. A. Barres, which takes its two main characters—who on the surface have nothing in common except the recent murders of their husbands—down some very twisty roads, literally and metaphorically.
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