{"id":51194,"date":"2025-08-07T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/51194\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:03:10","slug":"helen-mirren-pierce-brosnan-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/51194\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/helen-mirren\/\" id=\"auto-tag_helen-mirren_1\" data-tag=\"helen-mirren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Mirren<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/pierce-brosnan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pierce-brosnan_1\" data-tag=\"pierce-brosnan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierce Brosnan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ben-kingsley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-kingsley_1\" data-tag=\"ben-kingsley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Kingsley<\/a> and Celia Imrie are silver-haired amateur sleuths who suddenly find themselves solving a real life whodunit in the trailer for The Thursday Murder Club for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix_1\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThink Only Murders in the Building, only set in a British retirement home, as the comic crime caper based on the book by Richard Osman introduces senior crime busters not content to just play bridge or engage in idle gossip for leisure. Osman\u2019s book has become a classic among British crime thrillers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIf any harm comes to my friends, I will personally be laying a dozen blood-red roses on your coffin,\u201d a steely Mirren, who plays the role of ex-spy Elizabeth, says at one point in the trailer that introduces Richard Tennant as a villain. The series is underpinned by classic actors like Kingsley in the role of ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim, Brosnan portraying ex\u2013union activist Ron and Imrie performing the role of ex-nurse Joyce.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe star-studded cast for the Netflix series to bow on August 28 includes Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Richard E. Grant and Ingrid Oliver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Netflix-Amblin co-production is directed by Chris Columbus from a screenplay by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote. The Thursday Murder Club is the latest project to be produced as part of Netflix and Amblin\u2019s film partnership, which also includes the upcoming\u00a0Carry-On, starring Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tColumbus and Jennifer Todd serve as producers on\u00a0The Thursday Murder Club, while Holly Bario, Jeb Brody, Eleanor Columbus, Jo Burn and author Osman are executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie are silver-haired amateur sleuths who suddenly find themselves solving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11128,457,96,59,15573,392,28338,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-51194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ben-kingsley","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-helen-mirren","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-pierce-brosnan","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}