THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Following the conclusion of Severance's hit second season, John Turturro has come aboard to star in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, a new crime thriller that Noah Segan wrote and is directing for MRC and T-Street, with the former financing and the latter producing. Currently in production in New York City, the film follows Harry (Turturro), a career pickpocket who is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the streets of his city.
Paramount Pictures is moving forward with Man of War, a Western set to star Academy Award nominee Samuel L Jackson and directed by Tim Story. Jackson will play a venerated, recently retired general who goes back to his rural Georgia hometown following his wife's passing. He soon discovers that his community is grappling with corruption, the pressures of gentrification, and deep-seated racism. Drawing upon his extensive military training and strategic acumen, the general will fight the forces exploiting the town. The screenplay is by Sheldon Turner, who previously received an Oscar nomination for his adapted screenplay for the George Clooney-led Up in the Air.
Warner Bros is setting up a remake of The Bodyguard, the 1992 romantic drama thriller that teamed Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The original plot centered on Costner’s former Secret Service Agent Frank Farmer, who takes a job as bodyguard to famous R&B star Rachel Marron, played by Houston at the height of her pop-star fame. Drama, romance and a thriller plot ensue as Frank tries to sniff out a dangerous stalker. No casting has been set, but director Sam Wrench (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour) is on board, with Jonathan A. Abrams (Juror No. 2) penning the script.
Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting) and Jefferson White (Yellowstone) have joined the cast of the JFK thriller, November 1963, in the roles of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. The film delves into the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, based on firsthand accounts including exclusive insights from the Giancana family, particularly Sam Giancana. As the boss of the Chicago Outfit, one of the most powerful Italian-American criminal organizations in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s, Giancana became widely known for his connections to the Kennedy family during John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and presidency. Also starring in the project are John Travolta (Pulp Fiction), Mandy Patinkin (Homeland), and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding), with two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) serving as director.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Netflix's hit legal drama, The Lincoln Lawyer, has added Kyle Richards (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), Jason Butler Harner (Ozark), and Scott Lawrence (Paradise) to its Season 4 guest cast. The storyline was teed up at the end of the Season 3 finale when Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) was pulled over and arrested when the body of a client was found in the trunk of his Lincoln. Next season will see Mickey defending himself as he goes on trial for murder, facing off with the prosecutor on the case, Dana Berg (Constance Zimmer), who has ties to his first ex-wife, Maggie (Neve Campbell). Richards will play Celeste, described as Beverly Hills fabulous, who comes to Haller & Associates looking to hire them as a divorce attorney. Butler Harner will play Det. Drucker, a seasoned robbery-homicide detective with many years of investigations under his belt, who proves to be an especially determined adversary for Mickey. Lawrence will play Judge Stone, a former prosecutor known for his prickly attitude and tough sentencing. The season is based on the sixth book in The Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly, The Law of Innocence.
Jermaine Fowler has been tapped for a recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of Hulu’s hit comedy series, Only Murders in the Building. He is the latest big-name recurring cast addition for Season 5, joining previously announced Renée Zellweger, Christoph Waltz, Téa Leoni, Keegan-Michael Key, and Logan Lerman. Returning series regulars include stars/executive producers Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, as well as Michael Cyril Creighton. Production on the new season, which will be solving Lester’s murder, is underway in New York.
The BBC has acquired the German four-part series, The Black Forest Murders, from Studiocanal. Written by Robert Hummel and Martina Mouchot, and based on the non-fiction Walter Roth book, SOKO Erle, the series follows a 2016 police investigation into the mysterious murders of two young women in the south of Germany. Senior Detective Barbara Kramer (Nina Kunzendorf) of the Lauburg police and her team, including Thomas Riedle (Tilman Strauß), begin the search for the perpetrator in the case, which has parallels to a similar case in Austria that occurred four years earlier. The cast also includes Aliki Hirsch, Božidar Kocevski, Atrin Haghdoust, David Richter, Liliane Amuat, Florian Hertweck, Markus Krojer, Katja Bürkle, Sophia Schober and Mira Huber.
PODCASTS/RADIO
On Crime Writers of Color, Glenn Parris, Gar Anthony Haywood, Gary Phillips, Christopher Chambers and Gloria Browne-Marshall all joined Robert Justice to talk about their contributions to Marvel’s Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson—a revolutionary new anthology from Black American writers.
Write Place, Wrong Crime host Franz Zafiro spoke with Cindy Goyette about her career and her books, which range from parole/probation officer procedurals to cozies with dogs.
Raymond Benson chatted with Paul Burke on Crime Time FM about writing James Bond (6 novels, 3 novelizations and 3 short stories); fantasy spy fiction; Tom Clancy; favorite Ian Fleming and his legacy, and more.
Authors on the Air welcomed Matt Goldman, author of the Nils Shapiro series and his latest standalone thriller, The Murder Show, in which television showrunner Ethan Harris goes back to his childhood home while he tries to find an idea for his next show. An unsolved murder from the past and reclaimed relationships might give him the story he’s looking for—if it doesn’t kill him first.
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