THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Production has begun on Sunny, the dark thriller riffing on classic mafia films from Norwegian filmmaker Eva Sørhaug (Tokyo Vice, Yellowjackets), based on a story by Sørhaug and William Day Frank. Sunny follows a female gangster (Angelina Jolie) who fights to protect her sons — and herself — from an abusive drug kingpin. But when a devastating event occurs, she only has a matter of hours to plot their permanent escape. Charlie Plummer (The Long Walk) has also joined the cast.
In a highly competitive situation, Netflix has acquired The Operator, an action thriller spec from Harrison Query, with Mark Wahlberg attached to star. Wahlberg plays an ex-Tier One Operator who earns a living as one of the CIA’s invisible clean-up men. When he’s ordered to shepherd his most hated target to safety, the mission turns into a high-stakes cat and mouse game for survival.
On Wednesday, December 17, 8:00 pm, at Oakland's historic Grand Lake Theatre, Eddie Muller will host NOIR CITY Xmas. The Film Noir Foundation is presenting I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes, a 1948 Monogram noir starring Don Castle, Elyse Knox, and Regis Toomey, based on the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. The event will also sponsor a holiday food drive.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Legacy Of Spies, a TV series based on John le Carré’s series of novels, has landed at the BBC in the UK and MGM+ in the U.S. Written by Stephen Cornwell (A Most Wanted Man, Unknown) with Clarissa Ingram, the series adapts le Carré’s best-selling novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and will also draw on additional material from A Legacy of Spies. The eight-part adaptation will star Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Deadpool) as master-spy George Smiley; Charlie Hunnam (Monster, Sons of Anarchy) as the British intelligence officer Alec Leamas; Daniel Brühl (All Quiet on the Western Front, Rush) as East German spy Jens Fielder; and Devrim Lingnau Islamoğlu (The Empress) as Doris Quinz aka Agent Tulip.
MASTERPIECE PBS has announced it will be co-producing the upcoming six-part police procedural, Winter, starring Richard Armitage (Missing You, Fool Me Once). The drama follows Dr. Ethan Winter, one of the most gifted pathologists of his generation. He possesses an extraordinary analytical mind, capable of impeccable deductive reasoning which perfectly complements DI Lauren Bell, played by Annabel Scholey (The Sixth Commandment, Rivals), a meticulous, no-nonsense detective who is as driven as Winter when working on a case. Together they make a formidable team, as Winter’s genius and insight into the victims is invaluable to Bell and her murder squad detectives. Yet Winter is harboring a secret: the unsolved murder of someone close to him still haunts his every move, and he’s intent on unofficially investigating the death to bring the murderer to justice.
NBC is developing Truth, a drama series from Dallas Jackson (Thriller, Welcome To Sudden Death), David Marshall Grant (Brothers and Sisters, Nashville), Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man franchise, Girls Trip) and his Blackmaled Productions and Universal Television. Written by Jackson and Grant, Truth is based on the life of Dr. Roger Mitchell, Jr. and his time as Washington, D.C.’s youngest and first Black chief medical examiner, who takes over a major-city morgue using his genius level medical knowledge to help solve mysteries about how people die and give families closure. He also uses the lessons of the dead to help the living, including his own estranged drug-addicted father.
Bridgerton alum Regé-Jean Page is returning to Netflix as the star and executive producer of the erotic thriller series, Hancock Park, named after the historic and affluent Los Angeles neighborhood. The drama follows a dangerously charismatic outsider (Page), who invades the lives of a seemingly picture-perfect Los Angeles family when he rents their backyard guest house. But as he dives further into their world, the façade of this elite community begins to crumble, and he exposes the desire, deceit, and obsession that lurks around every corner of one of L.A.’s most-coveted neighborhoods.
Clue, a scripted adaptation of the classic murder mystery board game, has landed at Peacock for development. Clue is believed to be a murder mystery with comedic overtones in the vein of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise and his Peacock series, Poker Face. The drama brings a modern twist to the colorful cast of iconic characters. When a group of strangers is invited to an eccentric billionaire’s murder mystery night to solve the famous questions — who, where and with what — they quickly discover that nothing is what it seems to be, and the stakes are even higher than life or death.
Season 3 of Netflix's thriller series, The Night Agent, has set a premiere date of February 19. Created by Shawn Ryan and based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, the new season will once again feature Night Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), who is called in to track down a young Treasury Agent (Suraj Sharma) who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss. This kicks off a sequence of events where Peter investigates a dark money network while avoiding its paid assassins, also while putting him on a collision course with a relentless journalist (Genesis Rodriguez). Working together, they uncover buried secrets and old grudges that threaten to bring the government to its knees — and get them both killed in the process.
Boston Blue and Sheriff Country have both been renewed for a second season by CBS. Boston Blue is an offshoot of the network’s long-running Blue Bloods, following franchise star Donnie Wahlberg’s character, Danny Reagan, who has left the NYPD for the Boston Police Department. On the 10 p.m. Friday night drama, Danny is partnered with Detective Lena Silver, played by Sonequa Martin-Green. Sheriff Country, a spinoff of the network’s firefighter drama Fire Country, stars Morena Baccarin as Mickey Fox, a sheriff in the small California town of Edgewater, as she investigates criminal activity while navigating complex family dynamics.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
On the latest episode of Spybrary, guest host, spy thriller writer Jeremy Duns, welcomes acclaimed historical fiction author R.N. Morris to discuss his latest novel, Cover Story, and dive into the world of espionage as Morris shares insights into his writing process, the inspiration behind his characters, and the intriguing blend of humor and suspense that defines his work.
Journalist, editor, and crime fiction writer, Victoria Goldman, joined Murder Junction host Vaseem Khan to discuss her latest novel, Little Secrets, an atmospheric locked-room mystery set in a former prison that's been converted into a luxury hotel.
On Crime Time FM, Vaseem Khan (Quantum of Menace) and Gareth Rubin (Holmes & Moriarty) discussed the highs and lows of writing literary spin offs.
Meet the Thriller Author welcomed Mary Stone, the indie thriller author who has grown from a solo writer into the head of her own publishing house.
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