Netflix announces premiere date for The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club, headlined by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley, is all set to premiere on Netflix on August 28.

The Thursday Murder Club will also star David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Celia Imrie, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Richard E Grant, Tom Ellis, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Sarah Niles, and Ingrid Oliver.

Chris Columbus, known for helming a few Harry Potter films and the Home Alone franchise, is the director of this upcoming crime comedy. The Thursday Murder Club is based on Richard Osman's eponymous novel of 2020.

The Thursday Murder Club follows four septuagenarians in a retirement community who solve cold cases for fun. They encounter their first live crime, chancing upon the death of a shady property developer.

The film is produced in partnership between Netflix and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Amblin managed to win the worldwide rights to the film in a hotly contested auction in which 14 studios took part.

The success of Osman's The Thursday Murder Club led to a series including The Man Who Died Twice (2021), The Bullet That Missed (2022), and The Last Devil to Die (2023). A fifth book is set to be released in 2025 to get included in the list of the four New York Times bestsellers.