THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
As Deadline reported, 20th Century and Imagine Entertainment are in early development on a feature adaptation of the hit Fox series 24. Created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for Fox, 24 originally ran for nine seasons between 2001 and 2014, and spawned a 2008 television film called Redemption. Kiefer Sutherland starred as Jack Bauer, an agent from the U.S. government’s fictitious "Counter Terrorist Unit" (CTU). No plot details are currently known, and it is also unclear if Sutherland will return to play Bauer.
Michael Mann is making a sequel to his 1995 film Heat and is working on writing the screenplay, which is based on the novel Heat 2 that he co-authored with Meg Gardiner. Mann told the Los Angeles Times that he wants to begin shooting the film by the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025. Heat followed the conflict between LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and a career thief, Neil McCauley (Robert DeNiro), and also starred Val Kilmer as McCauley's right-hand man. Heat 2 will function as both a prequel and a sequel to Heat, jumping between two time periods. Although there's no word official yet on casting, Adam Driver and Austin Butler are rumored to be taking over DeNiro and Kilmer’s roles.
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Critic, a period thriller starring Ian McKellen, which is adapted from Anthony Quinn’s novel, Curtain Call. Directed by Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) from a script by Academy Award nominee Patrick Marber (Closer), the film will release in theaters on September 13th. Set in London in 1934, the film follows Jimmy Erskine (McKellen), the most feared theatre critic of his age, who derives pleasure from savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the newspaper where he works dies and his son David Brooke (Mark Strong) takes over, Jimmy finds himself at odds with his new boss. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with struggling actress Nina Land (Gemma Arterton), entangling them and Brooke in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.
Mimi Rogers (Bosch: Legacy) and Cemre Paksoy (As the Crow Flies) are attached to star in Night Nurse, an erotic thriller from writer-director Georgia Bernstein, which will mark her feature debut. The film takes place behind the gates of a remote retirement community, where a starry-eyed nurse is beguiled by a string of perverse scam calls. When she discovers her patient is the seductive con man behind these schemes, her innocent flirtation blooms into a lust for deception.
A trailer was released for The Killer, a remake of John Woo’s 1989 classic. The original film starred Chow Yun-Fat as a noble hit man who performs one last job after accidentally blinding a young singer. In a gender-swapped role, Nathalie Emmanuel stars as the titular assassin in the remake, with Diana Silvers playing the young girl the killer blinds, and Omar Sy playing the dogged detective on the killer’s trail. The preview shows plenty of Woo’s trademark style, which encompasses "slow-motion, operatic emotion, and balletic gunplay." Woo directed the new film from a screenplay by Oscar winner Brian Helgeland and the screenwriting team of Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken. The Killer debuts on Peacock on August 23.
TELEVISION/SMALL SCREEN
Colin Firth is joining the cast of Young Sherlock, Prime Video’s new series from Guy Ritchie, which tells the origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective. He joins previously cast Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Zine Tseng, Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhone. Written by Matthew Parkhill and inspired by Andy Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes book series, the show re-imagines Sherlock Holmes (Tiffin) at age 19. Disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University that threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever. Firth will play Sir Bucephalus Hodge.
NBC has picked up its two remaining pilots to series: Suits: L.A., starring Stephen Amell, and Grosse Pointe Garden Society. However, it has not been determined whether either of them will premiere during the 2024-25 season. Suits: L.A. is not a reboot or revival of the original USA series but more like a new chapter, centered on Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself by representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Melissa Fumero), Alice (AnnaSophia Robb), Brett (Ben Rappaport) and Catherine (Aja Naomi King) — all from different walks of life, "who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom."
Jeff Fahey (Lost), William Forsythe (Raising Arizona), and Nicky Whelan (Halloween 2) are among the cast joining Mark Pellegrino (Supernatural) in the upcoming dramedy crime series, A Motel. Also joining the cast are Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie), Niko Foster (MR-9: Do or Die), Nolan River (Old), Charlene Amoia (How I Met Your Mother), Luke Edwards (True Detective), Kelly Reiter (Deadlock), and Kelly Arjen (Adverse). Pellegrino leads the show about a group of outcasts working at a seedy motel who find themselves in danger when they accidentally uncover a drug smuggling plot for the mafia.
MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS released two new trailers (here and here) for the three remaining Mystery! titles to come this summer and fall, including the adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's Moonflower Murders, Van der Valk Season 4, and Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club.
PODCASTS/RADIO
On Crime Time FM, Trevor Wood chatted with Sarah Moorhead about his new police thriller, The Silent Killer; early onset Alzheimer's; homelessness; Glastonbury, and more.
The Red Hot Chili Writers spoke with thriller writer Jack Jordan about his new novel, Redemption, and his fascination with existential moral dilemmas.
The Pick Your Poison podcast looked at a poison still being used as medicine, why it’s called the King of Poisons, and what it has to do with the very first antibiotic.
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