Media Murder for Monday

It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news:

THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES 

New Regency and Maximum Effort are teaming on a feature adaptation of Peter Swanson's bestselling novel, Eight Perfect Murders, attaching Harry Bradbeer to direct. Eight Perfect Murders follows Malcolm Kershaw, a bookshop owner who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation when a clever killer begins to use his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders as inspiration. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. The killer is out there, watching his every move—a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife.

Matt Smith (House of the Dragon) and Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) are the newest additions to the cast of Caught Stealing, Darren Aronofsky’s new crime thriller for Sony Pictures. Details as to the roles they’re playing are currently unknown. Oscar nominee Austin Butler leads the ensemble, with Blink Twice director Zoë Kravitz and Academy Award winner Regina King also on board. Based on the books by Charlie Huston, who adapted the screenplay, Caught Stealing follows Hank Thompson (Butler), a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of 1990s New York City.

TELEVISION/SMALL SCREEN

In a recent interview, Titus Welliver, star and executive producer of Bosch: Legacy, updated the release date for season 3 as being sometime in 2025. A direct sequel to the police procedural, Bosch, Welliver reprises the role of Harry Bosch, who starts the show retired from the LAPD and working as a private detective. In the recent Bosch: Legacy season 2 finale, the relationship between Harry and his daughter gets complicated by a potential revelation.  

Lost alum Matthew Fox has signed on to star in The Assassin, a new drama series from writer-producer John Glenn (SEAL Team) in development at Max. Written by Glenn and based on the book series by British novelist Tom Wood, the project centers on a merciless assassin known only as Victor (Fox), who after being betrayed by an anonymous client, finds himself hunted across the globe by multiple enemies, including relentless CIA operatives and a contract killer equally as deadly. To stay alive, Victor must uncover the identity of his betrayer while grappling with a buried spark of humanity that begins to resurface within him and might just be the greatest threat to his survival.

John Slattery (Mad Men) has joined the cast of USA Network's drama series, The Rainmaker, based on the bestselling John Grisham novel and its film adaptation of the same name. In a series regular role, Slattery will portray one of Grisham’s most iconic characters, Leo F. Drummond, a legendary lion of the courtroom and senior partner at Tinley Britt, the powerful firm that Rudy Baylor is up against. Jon Voight played Leo in the Francis Ford Coppola film released in 1997. From writer and executive producer Michael Seitzman, the new series follows Baylor who, fresh out of law school, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Drummond and his law school girlfriend. Baylor, along with his boss and her disheveled paralegal, uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son.

PODCASTS/RADIO

Wrong Place, Write Crime podcast with host, Frank Zafiro, featured micro-interviews with different authors attending the Public Safety Writers Association conference.

On Crime Time FM, Michael Robotham chatted with Craig Sisterson about his new thriller, Storm Child; Evie Cormac; writing away from home; the secret award; and German TV adaptations.

The latest episode of The Red Hot Chili Writers featured an interview with Rachel Abbott about her latest novel, The Last Time I Saw Him; restoring Italian monasteries; and poodle-clipping at the Olympics.

The Big Ideas podcast looked at why forensic science is nothing like CSI, as three forensic pathologists spilled the beans on what it's really like to work in the science of death.

The Pick Your Poison podcast looked at a toxicology problem the WHO calls a neglected tropical disease killing more than 100,000 people per year.