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
In a highly competitive situation, New Regency has landed Fixation, an erotic thriller spec from Wednesday
screenwriters Erika Vazquez and Siena Butterfield. The project will be
produced alongside Emmy winner Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories
production company. While not much is known about the film’s plot, it
has been reported it centers on a couple’s therapist who is drawn into a
dangerous triangle of lust, lies, and manipulation.
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Ty Simpkins (The Whale), Julie Ann Emery (Better Call Saul), and Mel Rodriguez (The Last Man on Earth) have joined the cast of Busted, an indie revenge thriller from director Maria Bissell (How to Deter a Robber),
who penned the script with cinematographer Stephen Tringali. Currently
in production, the film follows naive college freshman Wendy (Fisher),
who gets trapped in a vicious blackmail scheme by her own roommate,
forced into a seedy strip club to pay off the debt. But when she
uncovers the sick truth behind the setup, the tables turn — hard.
Joining forces with the club’s outrageous misfit crew, Wendy launches a
daring reverse con to take her tormentor down. Others in the cast
include Michael Rose, Kathleen Wilhoite, Maria Zhang, and Ava Allan.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Glenn Close will star in the Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television drama, Maud,
playing Maud Oldcastle, an old killer with a tortured past. Determined
to break from a lifetime spent caring for her sister, Maud sets out to
claim a long-overdue second act, but a suspicious detective and an
unrelenting world built for youth may soon discover just how far she’ll
go to protect her freedom. Written by Nina Raine and Moses Raine (Donkey Heart) and produced by Wolf Hall maker Playground, the show is based on the short story collections, An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good and An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed, by best-selling Swedish author Helene Tursten.
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage is in talks to headline the upcoming fifth season of HBO‘s Emmy-winning crime anthology series, True Detective,
which marks the return of Season 4’s Issa Lopez as writer-showrunner.
The new installment will be set in New York, in Jamaica Bay, per HBO’s
Head of Drama Series and Film Francesca Orsi. Cage is in talks for the
lead role of Henry Logan, a New York detective on the case at the center
of the new season. The actor has been circling the part for a while,
but it's unclear whether the deal will close. Another Oscar winner,
Jodie Foster, also took a long time to make her deal for True Detective's Season 4, Night Country.
George Kay, the creator of Apple’s Hijack, is back with War, a new legal thriller starring Dominic West (The Crown) and Sienna Miller (Anatomy of a Scandal).
West plays tech titan Morgan Henderson, and Miller stars as his
estranged wife, international film star Carla Duval. The drama is set in
the elite world of London law and kicks off with a "scandalous divorce
case that sends shockwaves through boardrooms, bedrooms, and courtrooms
alike." HBO and Sky have handed the show a two-season order, setting it
up as an anthology series with a new case each season. Season one also
stars Phoebe Fox, James McArdle, Nina Sosanya, Pip Torrens, and Archie
Renaux.
Star Trek: The Next Generation star Marina Sirtis and Dynasty star Stephanie Beacham are returning to the small screen this fall in The Sunshine Murders,
a new cozy crime drama premiering Thursday, September 4, on UPtv with a
two-episode debut beginning at 8pm ET/PT. The series is about an
unlikely crime fighting duo made up of two very different sisters:
Shirley Rangi (played by Emily Corcoran), a farmer from New Zealand who
travels to Athens in search of her father, and her half-sister and
detective, Helen Moustakas (Dora Chrysikou). Shirley soon helps Helen
solve crimes with her "bush" wisdom and wit while they try to find their
missing father. Beacham will play Lady Gloria Whitten-Soames, and
Sirtis is stepping into the role of Helen's mother, Alexa Moustakas.
Laura Donnelly (The Nevers) is set to star in the ITV serial killer drama, The Dark,
playing Scottish Detective Monica Kennedy, the protagonist in the crime
series. When the body of a young man is found eerily staged in the
idyllic Scottish wilderness, she fears this is the beginning of a
terrifying campaign that will strike at the heart of a rural community.
The series is based on GR Halliday’s novel, From the Shadows, and there are hopes for more seasons with two more books already penned in the trilogy: Dark Waters and Under the Marsh.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
Science Friday welcomed chemist-turned-author Kathryn Harkup to discuss her new book, V is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death,
and the science of poisons: why they’re so popular in whodunnits, and
how to get away with murder (in fiction writing, of course).
On the latest episode of Spybrary, host Shane Whaley interviewed author Alex Gerlis about his latest novel, The Second Traitor, book 2 in a spy series which is set against the backdrop of World War II and the early Cold War. Gerlis also chatted with Crime Time FM host, Paul Burke, about the book; Operation Sea Lion; Hitler as military commander; German spies in England; and Alan Furst.
Debbi Mack's latest guest on the Crime Cafe podcast is thriller novelist, Howard Kaplan, author of the Jerusalem Spy Series, the latest of which is The Syrian Sunset.
The Cops and Writers
podcast featured a playback of a Sisters in Crime panel, "Behind the
Badge," with moderator Patrick J. O'Donnell, retired NYPD Detective
Marique Bartoldus (Twenty and Out), retired Chicago PD Detective Lieutenant Richard Rybicki (Dead Line), and retired Milwaukee Fire Department Captain Greg Renz (Beyond the Flames).
On Read or Dead, Katie McLain Horner and Kendra Winchester discussed historical crime and horror novels.
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