THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Universal released a first look at Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler in character for Miami Vice ’85, which is currently set for a May 19, 2028 release only in theaters. In the big-screen adaptation of the iconic 1980s TV series, which starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as detectives working undercover in Miami, Jordan will take over Thomas's role as Tubbs and Butler as Johnson's character, Crockett. The rest of the film's ensemble cast includes Alden Ehrenreich, Camila Morrone, Walton Goggins, Danny Ramirez, John Leguizamo, Andre Holland, Michael Irby and Whitney Peak. Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick; F1) will direct from a screenplay by Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler). The TV drama was seen as groundbreaking for its use of popular music and drawing from the culture at the time, much of which was owed to director Michael Mann’s vision for the series.
Hollywood action veteran, Renny Harlin. is attached to direct the rescue thriller, Evac. The film will follow "a medical specialist who must team up with a wounded inmate she was sent to rescue after their medical helicopter crash-lands in a volatile prison yard. Together, the mismatched duo must survive the night and fight their way out amidst a dangerous, unfolding prison conspiracy.” Written by Sidney King (Skyfire), the project is being produced by Michael Roccio (Human Capital), Robert Dean (Trap House) for uStudios, and producing partners Dawn Bursteen and Alan B. Bursteen of Milestone Studios, whose credits include the action-thriller, Hunting Season.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Antonio Banderas has joined Nicolas Cage in season 5 of the crime anthology drama, True Detective, which is set to begin production in 2027. The new season hails from showrunner Issa López, who helmed the Alaska-set fourth season, “Night Country,” starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Season 5 will take place in Jamaica Bay, New York, and although few character details are known, Banderas will star as Rai García while Cage will play the role of Henry Logan. Created by Pizzolatto, True Detective has been nominated for 41 Emmys and has won six. Per HBO, Season 4 was the most-watched installment of the show to date, with 12.7 million cross-platform viewers.
ITV has bought the upcoming Irish thriller, The Galway Bay Murders, starring Star Trek: Voyager icon Kate Mulgrew and Colm Meaney (who also starred in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). The show, from new TV writer Eithne Verling, follows seasoned NYPD detective Nora Savage (Mulgrew), who arrives in the west of Ireland hoping to escape a traumatic past and find a quieter life. However, her plans are shattered when the body of a young woman is discovered in a bog, drawing Nora into a complex murder investigation alongside the local Garda team. The ensemble cast also includes John Connors (The Gentlemen, Irish Blood), India Mullen (Under Salt Marsh), Cillian O’Sullivan (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), and Jack Rowan (Wreck).
ITV and World Productions have commissioned a third series of the cold case crime series, Karen Pirie, based on the novels by Val McDermid, with Lauren Lyle in the iconic role of the fiercely intelligent Scottish detective. The new season of six episodes will be based on The Skeleton Road, the third book in the novel series. The story starts with the discovery of a man’s remains hidden in the roof of a derelict Edinburgh building. DI Karen Pirie learns that the victim fled the Balkans conflict of the 1990s for the safety of Scotland to marry a now famous author, whose identity stirs up a hornets' nest of publicity. As the investigation develops, Karen unearths dangerous secrets and a vicious cycle of revenge as someone takes justice into their own hands.
Durango, which stars Cooper Hoffman and Kathryn Newton, has landed a series order at Hulu. Hoffman stars as Mikey, a ski bum townie chasing a buzz. Newton plays Bunny, a homeschooled runaway working as a greasy-spoon waitress. Together they’re riding an avalanche of bad decisions and falling in love while running from cops, criminals, and Mikey’s wife in pursuit of their own American dream. Merritt Wever, Mason Gooding and Abbey Lee have also joined the cast, with Wever playing Joni, a sharp and self-effacing local detective who’s deeply unimpressed by almost everything; Gooding playing Miles, a young detective with a sharp mind and a sharper mouth; and Lee playing Irina, Mikey’s Russian wife.
Maddie Hasson (Bone Lake, The Recruit) is set as a series regular opposite Julia Garner in Apple TV‘s thriller drama, Guilty Creatures, from director Craig Gillespie, showrunner Stuart Zicherman and Tomorrow Studios. In addition to Garner, Hasson joins previously announced Lewis Pullman. Adapted for the screen by Sarah DeLappe from Mikita Brottman‘s true-crime book Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida, the series is set against a backdrop of sex and and murder in the Florida Panhandle. It delves into the psyche of a torrid romance and subsequent act of murder between two young, adulterous but God-fearing lovers — believed to be played by Garner and Pullman — unraveling their complex lives and the emotional toll of living as killers for 18 years.
Apple TV has added twelve to the Season 2 cast of its action thriller, Down Cemetery Road, including: Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Paterson Joseph (Wonka), Aasiya Shah (Bait), Dimitri Leonidas (Foundation), Paul Chahidi (This Country), Liz White (The Long Shadow), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Jeff Rawle (Drop the Dead Donkey), Ashley McGuire (Slow Horses), Amber Grappy (One Day) and Yali Topol Margalith (Alice and Steve). The series is adapted from Herron’s Oxford book series, with Season 2 based on novels The Last Voice You Hear and Smoke and Whispers. The drama stars Emma Thompson as Zoë Boehm, a misanthropic private investigator, and Ruth Wilson as Sarah Trafford, an art conservationist. Per the logline, "After a woman falls in front of a train Zoë is called in to investigate, but this seemingly simple case soon upends her life as she and Sarah find themselves navigating the dark side of the glamorous world of art and antiquities. Matters take a deadly turn when they stumble into the path of a brutal serial killer who will stop at nothing to cover up his crimes."
Hulu's limited series Victoria has added Mark Duplass (The Morning Show) to its cast, joining the previously announced Li Jun Li and Diane Lane. Created and written by Hall (I Am Not Okay with This), set in the cutthroat world of San Francisco’s elite, Victoria is an erotic thriller that follows Maxine Tao (Li), a brilliant con artist who finds herself in a dark web of power, luxury and the crosshairs of a seductive killer who knows her secrets. Duplass will play William Holbrook, a brilliant UC Berkeley professor whose work in gene editing has made him a sought-after figure in Silicon Valley. Lane plays Lee Calloway, a savvy venture capitalist accustomed to getting what she wants and has worked too hard to let anyone stand between her and the win.
ABC‘s hit crime procedural, The Rookie, starring Nathan Fillion, will premiere its ninth season on Jan. 6 in a new time period on a new night, Wednesday at 9 PM, serving as a lead-in to new spinoff, The Rookie: North, headlined by Jay Ellis, which will debut on the same date and air Wednesdays at 10 PM. ABC was expected to pair The Rookie and The Rookie: North together, a practice regularly employed by networks in expanding franchises that helps to launch new offshoots and allows for seamless crossovers. Fillion is making an appearance in The Rookie: North pilot, and Alexi Hawley, creator, executive producer and showrunner of both series, said in May that he was envisioning 2-3 crossover episodes per season.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
On the latest Murder Junction, Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee spoke with playwright, screenwriter, and producer, Arvind Ethan David, about his debut novel, The Great Game.
On the Poisoned Pen Bookstore podcast, John Charles was in conversation with Lynette Eason and Kelly Underwood to discuss Deadly Charade.
The Femme Detectives chatted with Allison Brennan, about the upcoming One Last Warning, the latest in her bestselling Quinn & Costa series.
The Sisters in Crime podcast welcomed Manju (MJ), who grew up in South Africa and wrote a part-memoir about being a doctor/activist under apartheid. Since then, drawing on her American, African, and Indian background, she's written mystery short fiction and her debut cozy mystery, The Masala Chai Mystery Club, released in July via Crooked Lane Books.
Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle were in conversation with best-selling author Tessa Wegert on the Outliers Podcast Series to talk about her Shana Merchant and North Country series.
Killer Women welcomed bestselling authors Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan Is Killing It) and Hannah Morissey (the Black Harbor suspense series).
The Flamingo Files spoke with Thomas B. Cavanagh (Diamond Cut and Blood Ruby featuring private investigator Sandy Corrigan) and Martin Hill Ortiz (the historical thriller, Shadow of the Tower).
On Blackbird Writers Presents, cozy mystery author and traveler, Sharon Lynn, was in conversation with Tracey S. Phillips about the differences between British and American law enforcement, Arthurian history and what's next for Lynn's protagonist, Maggie McGuire.
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