Richard E Grant and Tom Ellis are among the stars to have joined the glittering cast of the big screen adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club. It was previously revealed that Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie will play the lead roles in the Netflix movie. They will be joined by David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays and Henry Lloyd-Hughes in the hotly anticipated film version of Richard Osman’s debut novel.
NEWS: Richard E. Grant, Tom Ellis, Geoff Bell, Paul Freeman, Sarah Niles and Ingrid Oliver will star in the film adaptation of @richardosman ‘s bestselling novel, The Thursday Murder Club! pic.twitter.
com/FNE8TDeEfW — Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) July 9, 2024 Other new additions to the cast, alongside Withnail And I star Grant and Lucifer’s Ellis, include Top Boy actor Geoff Bell, Tokyo Trial star Paul Freeman, Ted Lasso actress Sarah Niles and Doctor Who’s Ingrid Oliver. The 2020 bestseller follows retirement residents who attempt to investigate murders in their sleepy English village for fun, but find themselves caught in a real case. More have since been released in the series, which features Elizabeth Best, an ex-spy played by Dame Helen, Joyce Meadowcroft, a former nurse played by Imrie, ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim Arif, played by Sir Ben, and former union activist Ron Ritchie, played by Brosnan.
Little visit to Coopers Chase today. pic.twitter.
com/l1jyC0lQwN — Richard Osman (@richardosman) July 8, 2024 .