Gather round, gather round! The Thursday Murder Club movie has released a teaser trailer!

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Here it is! It’s a minute and a half, so it doesn’t reveal too much (thankfully). But it does present the world of Cooper’s Chase, the luxury retirement community home to four impressive senior sleuths, to satisfying detail.

You all probably know this already, but the movie, which is directed by Chris Columbus and which is set to premiere on Netflix on August 28th, is an adaptation of Richard Osman’s runaway bestseller of the same name. It stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, Naomi Ackie, Jonathan Pryce, Richard E. Grant, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes.

Now we just have to find out if the film will be getting a theatrical release.

Olivia Rutigliano

Olivia Rutigliano

Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.