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Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy said this week that the next Indiana Jones installment is on course to go into production this coming spring. As previously announced, James Mangold is directing, and Comscore currently has it dated for a July 29, 2022 release. No mention was made of Chris Pratt, who was rumored to be attached, although Harrison Ford is returning.
Ana De Armas is set to star opposite Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in Joe and Anthony Russo’s action thriller, The Gray Man, for Netflix (and will be the biggest-budget film in Netflix’s history on the feature side). The Gray Man is based on the debut novel by Mark Greaney, published in 2009 by Jove Books, and features freelance assassin and former CIA operative, Court Gentry, a/k/a "The Gray Man." The action thriller will follow Gentry (Gosling) as he’s hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former cohort at the CIA.
Lionsgate has acquired the crime thriller, Silk Road, starring Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Katie Aselton, Lexi Rabe, Daniel Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Paul Walter Hauser. Tiller Russell wrote and directed the pic and the plan is for a domestic release in theaters, on digital, and video on demand on February 19, 2021. Based on larger-than-life true events, Silk Road focuses on the young, affluent and highly motivated entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht (Robinson), whose ambitious goal is to launch the Internet’s first completely anonymous and unregulated marketplace. With Ulbricht’s passion for the possibilities his invention offers the world, his site – the Silk Road – becomes the world’s fastest-growing drug market, catching the focus of disgraced DEA agent Rick Bowden (Clarke).
Marvel Group CEO, Zygi Kamasa, says that filmmaker Matthew Vaughn is plotting "something like seven more Kingsman films" as part of the company’s expansion plans. Kamasa told the Winston Baker UK Finance Summit late last week that "We have a Kingsman TV series in the works and there are two or three other franchises that are being developed pertaining to Kingsman world." The Covid-delayed prequel, The King’s Man, is due to hit cinemas in February of next year for Disney and stars Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Bruhl, Stanley Tucci, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Djimon Hounsou.
Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a movie for Netflix called End of the Road, that will see her on the run from a mysterious killer while on a road trip with her family. Millicent Shelton (a director on Black-ish, Insecure, Hunters, and The Walking Dead), will helm the project, while David Loughery, who wrote The Intruder and Obsessed, is writing the script based on a screenplay concept by Christopher Moore.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is in negotiations to join Jake Gyllenhaal in the Michael Bay action-thriller, Ambulance, which is based on the original Danish Film, Ambulancen. The logline is being kept under wraps, but insiders say the film is in the vein of the great action thrillers of the ’90s like Speed and Bay’s Bad Boys. In the Danish film, two brothers commit a robbery to pay their dying mother's medical bills, but are forced to steal an ambulance during their getaway....however, the ambulance has a dying heart patient in the back.
Jeremy Irons is set to join the A-list ensemble of MGM’s Gucci movie that Ridley Scott is directing. Lady Gaga is attached to star as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci who was tried and convicted of orchestrating his assassination on the steps of his office in 1995. She served 18 years in jail before being let out in 2016. Irons joins a cast that includes Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Jack Huston and Reeve Carney.
Death on the Nile with Kenneth Branagh is back on the theatrical release slate after Disney previously pulled the 20th Century Studios title from its release date in December. The adaptation of the Agatha Christie movie, starring Branagh as detective Hercule Poirot, will open September 17, 2021.
A trailer was released for Nobody, which stars Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk in a John Wick-style action movie.
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Coming off his recent success with the Netflix mini-series, The Queen’s Gambit, filmmaker Scott Frank is said to now be working on the development of a Sam Spade TV series and is hoping to snag Clive Owen to star as the lead. Sam Spade is a San Francisco private detective appearing in a novel and a series of stories by Dashiell Hammett, most notably The Maltese Falcon. Humphrey Bogart famously portrayed the character in John Huston’s film adaptation, which also starred Mary Astor and Peter Lorre. This new version, however, would have Spade living in the south of France as an older man in his '60s.
ITV is turning Len Deighton’s spy novel, The Ipcress File, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name, into a television series. The adaptation will be penned by BAFTA-winning Trainspotting writer, John Hodge, while the cast will be led by Gangs Of London and Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole, alongside Bohemian Rhapsody actress Lucy Boynton, and The Night Manager’s Tom Hollander. Cole will star as Harry Palmer, who is serving as a working-class British sergeant in Berlin as the Cold War rages in the 1960s. Palmer is a sharp and savvy operator, with varied side-hustles that ultimately land him trouble with the law for crimes that could mean an eight-year stretch in a grim English military jail. But spotting Palmer’s potential, and his network in Berlin, an intelligence officer offers him a way to avoid prison by becoming a spy. His first case is The Ipcress File — a dangerous undercover mission on which Palmer must use his links to a man suspected of kidnapping a missing British nuclear scientist.
NBC is developing Zorro, a contemporary take on the classic masked vigilante character with a gender swap. Co-written by the brother and sister duo of Robert and Rebecca Rodriguez, Zorro centers on Sola Dominguez, an underground artist who fights for social justice as a contemporary version of the mythical Zorro. Her life is threatened by several criminal organizations after she exposes them.
Marina de Tavira, star of Netflix’s Roma, is set to lead the Spanish-language crime drama, Kolonie. Written by Carlos Rincones, who also wrote for Netflix’s Mexican drama Tijuana, the series centers around an emotionally complex seasoned special agent, Adriana (de Tavira), who is tasked with investigating the brutal murder of a Mennonite boy in rural Chihuahua, Mexico. Once there, she partners with a rookie local policeman who recently abandoned the Mennonite community to join the police force. As they inch closer to solving the crime, they slowly uncover a dark web of corruption and mysticism that extends beyond anything they could have ever imagined.
ABC has made its first back-order pickup of the 2020 season, giving the David E. Kelley drama, Big Sky, an additional six episodes. The crime thriller became the network’s highest-rated debut since The Rookie in October 2018. The series, based on C.J Box’s book by the same name, follows private detective Cassie Dewell, played by Kylie Bunbury, and ex-cop Jenny Hoyt, played by Katheryn Winnick, who join forces to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana
In more Big Sky news, Sharon Taylor is set for a recurring role. Taylor will play Commander Elena Sosa, a decorated twenty-year veteran of the Montana Highway Patrol, who worked her way up the ranks to her current status. She considers herself a community police officer, and takes that role seriously in her efforts to keep the streets and citizens of Montana safe. Commander Sosa is also a proud member of Montana’s indigenous community, and will work with Cassie and Jenny to bring the kidnappers to justice.
Lance Lim is set for a recurring role in the current third season of CBS’s action crime drama, Magnum P.I. Lim will portray Dennis, the son of Det. Gordon Katsumoto (Tim Kang). Starring Jay Hernandez, Magnum P.I. follows Thomas Magnum, a private investigator and former Navy SEAL, who solves crimes in the state after returning home from Afghanistan and repurposing his military skills. Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Kang and Amy Hill also star.
Clarice, CBS’s new series follow-up to Silence of the Lambs (based on Thomas Harris's novel) will debut Feb. 11. Along with the premiere dates, CBS today released a first-look photo and teaser for the new series.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO.
In the New York Times's Book Review Podcast, Jo Nesbø talked about his latest non-Harry-Hole novel, The Kingdom.
Meet the Thriller Author welcomed Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Riley Wolfe novels and the New York Times bestselling author of the Dexter novels, which debuted in 2004 with Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
Wrong Place, Write Crime chatted with TK Thorne about her urban fantasy police procedural, House of Rose.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club covered some Winter Holiday Mysteries in a roundup episode.
The Gay Mystery Podcast chatted with Kristen Lepionka, author of the Roxane Weary mystery series. Her debut, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. novel and was also nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards.
Mysteryrat’s Maze Podcast featured the first chapter of the mystery novel, A Merry Christmas Anniversary Mystery, by Anna Celeste Burke and read by actor Julia Reimer.
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