Watch: Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren team up in The Thursday Murder Club trailer
A new trailer for The Thursday Murder Club shows Pierce Brosnan teaming up with Dame Helen Mirren (Giles Keyte/Netflix/PA)
Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan can be seen teaming up to solve a cold case in a new trailer for the Netflix film adaptation of Richard Osman’s .
The adaptation, based on the book series by game show host and author Osman, follows four retirees, played by Mirren, former James Bond actor Brosnan, Celia Imrie, and Ben Kingsley, who spend their time solving historic murders.
In the trailer a woman’s body can be seen flying out of a window with a knife in her chest, as the crime solving group stand around a board of evidence before being interrupted by a woman who asks “isn’t this room normally reserved for jigsaws”, “not on a Thursday, no”, Mirren’s character replies.
Later in the clip, Imrie’s character can be heard saying: “There’s been a murder, an actual murder, now we’ve got a real cast to solve, isn’t it wonderful? Obviously RIP and all that.”
In later shots, Mirren can be seen racing through the streets in a silver sports car, and being approached by a figure in the shadows.
Mirren, 79, and Brosnan, 71, recently starred alongside one another as husband and wife in Ronan Bennett’s series , also starring Tom Hardy.
The film is directed by producer Christopher Columbus and follows the characters, who usually focus on cold cases, as an unexplained death leads to them taking on a whodunnit case.
The cast also includes Richard E Grant, Tom Ellis, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Daniel Mays and Henry Lloyd-Hughes.
After it was released in September 2023, Osman’s fourth instalment in book series, , achieved platinum status.
His follow-up book is called and is set for release in September.
will launch on August 28 exclusively on Netflix.
