The Thursday Murder Club Cast Adds Richard E. Grant & More to Netflix Movie

Netflix has added six new cast members to The Thursday Murder Club, the upcoming feature film adaptation of Richard Osman’s best-selling novel.

Per Deadline, Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Tom Ellis (Lucifer), Geoff Bell (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Sarah Niles (Ted Lasso), and Ingrid Oliver (Doctor Who) are the newest cast members in The Thursday Murder Club.

Grant is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Grant recently appeared as Sir James Catton in Saltburn and Fowler in Argylle. The veteran actor will have a recurring role in HBO’s The Franchise, a comedy series about a crew working on the production of a superhero film.

These six actors join an impressive cast, which includes Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Naomi Ackie, Jonathan Pryce, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes.

What to Expect in The Thursday Murder Club?

Per Netflix, “the story follows a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun but find themselves caught in a real case.”

The Thursday Murder Club’s main members are Elizabeth (Mirren), an ex-spy; Ibrahim (Kingsley), an ex-psychiatrist; Ron (Brosnan), an ex-union activist; and Joyce (Imrie), an ex-nurse.

Chris Columbus writes and directs The Thursday Murder Club. This is Columbus’s first feature directorial effort since 2020’s The Christmas Chronicles 2. The film is the latest project to stem from the new partnership between Netflix and Amblin. Columbus is a producer on the film alongside Jennifer Todd. Executive producers include Holly Bario, Jeb Brody, Eleanor Columbus, and Jo Burn.

Production on The Thursday Murder Club is currently underway. The film has no release date.

(Source: Deadline)