THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Oscar nominee James Caan will star alongside Morena Baccarin and Pierce Brosnan in the hitman thriller, Fast Charlie, to be directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt). Brosnan will play Charlie Swift, who has worked for his aging mob boss Stan (Caan) for twenty years, skillfully operating as a prolific fixer and efficient hitman. When a rival boss moves to eliminate Stan and his entire team, he fails to complete the job. Now on his own, Charlie will stop at nothing to avenge his friend and has no plans to leave anyone alive. Morena Baccarin is set to play the female lead Marcie, the ex-wife of a mobster killed by Charlie, who forms an unexpected pairing with Charlie in his revenge against the rival mob. The project is inspired by the novel Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler.
Hailey Kilgore, David Iacono, and Jeremie Harris have signed on to star in the noir film, Cinnamon, which will stream exclusively on Fox’s free service, Tubi. The feature, currently in production in Atlanta, follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant and aspiring and truly gifted singer, Jodi Jackson (Kilgore), whose life is sent into a spin when there’s a robbery at work. Iacono is playing Jodi’s fiercely devoted hustler boyfriend-turned-music manager, Eddie, with Harris as James Walker, a young gangster in the drug running business. Cinnamon is the first movie in production under Tubi’s recently announced film deal with Village Roadshow Pictures to produce multiple films from its Black Noir Cinema initiative.
Loki star Gugu Mbatha-Raw has been set as the female co-lead opposite Kevin Hart in the cast of the action film Lift at Netflix. To be directed by F. Gary Gray (The Fate of the Furious; Straight Outta Compton), the project has also rounded out the rest of its cast with the additions of Vincent D’Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Yun Jee Kim, Viveik Kalra, and Paul Anderson. Lift tells the story of an international crew who is recruited to prevent a terrorist attack by pulling off a heist on a plane mid-flight.
The action-thriller, Murder at Hollow Creek, from director David Lipper (Wolf Mountain), is currently wrapping up production. The project is set to star Jason Patric, Keli Price, Jack Kesy, Penelope Ann Miller, Perrey Reeves, Tiffany Hines, Casper Van Dien, and Mickey Rourke and was written by Keli Price (On Thin Ice). The story follows a disbarred lawyer (Price) and his eccentric brother (Kesy) whose little sister is dying with no money left to pay the medical bills. When the brothers attempt to pull off the robbery of a lifetime, they instead find themselves in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a disgruntled Serbian mobster (Rourke), while a local detective (Patric) tries to put the pieces of the puzzle together before it’s too late.
TELEVISION/STREAMING SERVICES
CBS is accelerating development of HSI: Puerto Rico and has set up a writers room for a potential scripts-to-series order. HSI: Puerto Rico is being eyed as a prospective CBS crime drama franchise and centers on a passionate Homeland Security agent who reluctantly returns home to Puerto Rico where she works with her talented, but jaded, training officer as part of an elite HSI team working tirelessly against all manner of threats to the United States. Husband-and-wife duo Roselyn Sanchez and Eric Winter, who are series regulars on ABC’s The Rookie and Fox’s Fantasy Island respectively, will serve as executive producers.
The entire NCIS franchise will be returning for the 2022-2023 broadcast season. CBS has renewed flagship NCIS for a milestone 20th season, which would tie Gunsmoke as the third-longest-running U.S. primetime drama series only behind Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order. The network also picked up its top freshman drama NCIS: Hawai’i for a second season and NCIS: Los Angeles for a 14th season. The three dramas join CBS’s previously announced renewals of other shows, including CSI: Vegas, with an additional renewal for another strong procedural drama franchise, FBI, said to be coming soon.
The CW is diving into the legal world with its latest series, Family Law, after the network acquired the one-hour Canadian drama series. Created by Degrassi scripter Susin Nielsen, Family Law follows attorney and recovering alcoholic Abigail Bianchi (Jewel Staite), struggling to put her career and family back together after hitting rock bottom. As a condition of her probation, Abby is forced to work at her estranged father Harry’s (Victor Garber) firm, Svensson and Associates, and practice in family law for the first time while forging new relationships with the half-brother Daniel (Zach Smadu) and half-sister Lucy (Genelle Williams) whom she’s never met. The result is a dysfunctional "Family Law" firm operating to help other families with their own dysfunctions.
Matt Passmore, Floriana Lima, and Dave Annable are set as the leads of NBC's Blank Slate, written by Dean Georgaris and to be directed by Richard Shepard. Blank Slate draws some parallels to The Blacklist and centers on Special Agent Alexander McCoy, a legend in law enforcement, the agent we all hope is out there, the agent we’d all like to be. The only issue is — he doesn’t actually exist. He’s a ghost, a phantom. So what happens when a man claiming to be Alexander McCoy (Passmore) walks through the door with all of his skills and knowledge but with an agenda nobody will see coming? Lima plays Maya Logan, the seasoned head of a team of Homeland Security agents who’s always a step ahead of everyone else. Annable will play Chris Logan, a congressional candidate and husband to Agent Logan.
Victoria Pedretti and Josh Bonzie will lead the cast of Saint X, Hulu’s eight-part series from writer Leila Gerstein and director Dee Rees. Based on Alexis Schaitkin’s novel, Saint X is a psychological drama told via multiple timelines and perspectives that explore and upend the girl-gone-missing genre. The storyline follows a young woman’s mysterious death during an idyllic Caribbean vacation, which creates a traumatic ripple effect that eventually pulls her surviving sister into a dangerous pursuit of the truth. Pedretti stars as Emily, a sharp and ambitious editor of environmental documentaries whose carefully constructed, seemingly perfect life begins to crumble. Bonzie will play Clive "Gogo" Richardson, who we meet as a shy and clumsy but warm-hearted 20-year old, and again decades later as a hardened, changed man.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO
On the latest episode of Keen On, hosted by Andrew Keen, Guillermo Martínez, author of The Oxford Brotherhood, discusses Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Jorge Luis Borges, and the "Mathematical Art of the Great Detective Novel."
On the latest Crime Cafe podcast, Debbi Mack interviewed crime writer Ben Westerham, author of the David Good private eye series and the Banbury Cross Murder Mysteries.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Book Club continued their series with Agatha Award nominees, this time featuring Mally Becker and Mia P. Manansala.
On Speaking of Mysteries, Jess Montgomery spoke about The Echoes, the fourth installment of the Kinship mystery series featuring Sheriff Lily Ross.
Meet the Thriller Author welcomed Lisa Scottoline, bestselling and Edgar award-winning author of 33 novels, including her latest work, Eternal, her first-ever historical novel.
John McMahon stopped by Wrong Place, Write Crime to talk about his P.T. Marsh series of mystery novels, including the newest, A Good Kill.
In the first of a new monthly segment on Queer Writers of Crime, three authors who were previously guests on the podcast, Marshall Thornton, Barbarba Wilson, and Elizabeth Sims, give book recommendations for others to enjoy.
The latest guest on My Favorite Detective Stories was New England writer, Dale T Phillips, who has published several novels, over 70 short stories, story collections, articles, jokes, and poetry, and has appeared on stage, television, and in Throg, an independent feature film.
On the Writers Detective Bureau, Detective Adam Richardson explained what a Coroner's Inquest is and why inquests aren't used much anymore; the difference between a small-town sheriff and police chief; and he discussed the various investigative units and their divisions.
The most recent Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine podcast featured "The Broken T," a classic from EQMM’s founding editors, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (writing as Ellery Queen), read by EQMM managing editor, Jackie Sherbow.
The Red Hot Chili Writers discussed the British Book Awards shortlist; Janice Hallett and The Appeal; The Dying Day paperback; and epistolary novels
On Crime Time FM, Bogan Hribs spoke with host, Paul Burke, about Resilience; Romanian crime fiction; politics in Eastern Europe; translating Romanian to English and vice versa; and coffee culture.
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