THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to The Wasp, a psychological thriller starring Academy Award nominee Naomie Harris (Moonlight) and Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones). Adapted from the play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and directed by two-time BAFTA nominee Guillem Morales (Inside Number 9) in his English-language debut, the film will be released in theaters this summer. In The Wasp, Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer) agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever, in a plot "evoking such classic cat-and-mouse thrillers as Sleuth and Deathtrap."
Netflix's film division has preemptively acquired a pitch for an untitled law school thriller from Holland, Michigan screenwriter, Andrew Sodroski. While plot details are unknown at this time, the pitch is said to be described as a contemporary spin on The Firm meets The Wolf of Wall Street.
Production has wrapped on Bring the Law, an action-thriller that marks the directorial debut of actress Scout Taylor Compton (2007’s Halloween). The film stars Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Peter Facinelli (Twilight), Nicky Whelan (The Flood), Danielle Harris (Halloween), Brendan Fehr (Roswell), and Leah Pipes (The Originals). The film follows a grieving homicide detective who is chosen to lead a task force in Los Angeles to stop a criminal organization. He soon unravels a conspiracy involving corruption in his own department.
TELEVISION/SMALL SCREEN
In a competitive situation, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television acquired the rights to Matthew Blake‘s debut crime thriller novel, Anna O, which is in the process of being set up at Netflix for development. The story follows Dr. Benedict Prince, an expert in sleep-related homicide, as he investigates the inexplicable case of Anna O, who murdered two people in cold blood four years ago and hasn’t awakened since. The tabloid press dubs her "Sleeping Beauty," but as Anna shows the first signs of stirring, Dr. Benedict must determine what really happened that night and whether or not she should be held criminally responsible for her actions when she finally wakes up.
Captain Marvel writer-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are set to direct the first four episodes of Prime Video's Criminal, a drama based on the award-winning graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Brubaker, who penned the pilot script, co-showruns with crime fiction author Jordan Harper (Hightown). The TV show is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories, or as Brubaker explained to Deadline, "Criminal tells the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past."
Amid strong ratings, ABC has renewed the procedural drama Will Trent, starring Ramón Rodríguez, for a third season. Based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novels, the series follows the titular special agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, Will uses his unique point of view to pursue justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.
MGM+ has dropped a teaser trailer for the 1970s crime thriller, Hotel Cocaine, and revealed its remaining cast. The premiere of the 8-episode series will be available on June 16 on MGM+, with new episodes airing on Sundays until August 4. Hotel Cocaine tells the story of Roman Compte (Danny Pino), a Cuban exile and general manager of the Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The Mutiny Hotel was Casablanca on cocaine; a glitzy nightclub, restaurant, and hotel frequented by Florida businessmen and politicians, international narcos, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars, and musicians.
PODCASTS/VIDEO/RADIO/AUDIO
Speaking of Mysteries welcomed Don Winslow to talk about City in Ruins, the third and final installment of his Danny Ryan trilogy, in what he says is his final crime fiction novel.
Author Philip Gwynne Jones chatted with Crime Time FM's Paul Burke about his thrillers, The Venetian Candidate and The Venetian Sanctuary; Venice; honorary consuls; and Italy.
Meet the Thriller Author spoke with Dana Perry, an award-winning author of crime fiction and a journalist in New York City where he has had a long career as a top editor at the New York Post, New York Daily News, Star magazine and NBC News. The first three novels in his new Nikki Cassidy series, starting with The Nowhere Girls, were published this month.
The Cops and Writers podcast featured the conclusion of an interview with Louis Ferrante, a former member of the Gambino Crime Family who is now an international bestselling author, television producer and director, and Vic Ferrari, podcaster, author, and a retired NYPD detective.
On Read or Dead, Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discussed some books with a perfect sense of humor.
The latest Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine podcast episode featured a celebrated story from the March/April 2022 issue, Anna Scotti's "Schrodinger, Cat," a Macavity Award nominee and third place finisher in the EQMM 2022 Readers Award poll.
THEATRE
The eighth annual Leeds Opera Festival in the UK will feature the first ever operatic adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, a brand new opera by award-winning composer Liam Paterson. The overall theme for this year's festival is crime and adventure and will also include an interactive mystery show for children.
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