The upcoming adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club already had a stacked cast, with Helen Mirren, Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, and Pierce Brosnan playing the four central characters, friends in a retirement community who wind up embroiled in a local murder. But there’s more! Deadline reports that David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes have also signed on—though it’s not immediately clear who these latest cast members will be playing.
Tennant needs no introduction in these parts; he’s the Tenth (and Fourteenth) Doctor, and also the demon Crowley (in Good Omens, pictured above). Pryce has been acting since the ’70s; he was the villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, plays Elizabeth Swann’s father in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and was Game of Thrones’ High Sparrow. Ackie had a tiny role in The Rise of Skywalker, and stars in the upcoming Blink Twice and Mickey 17.
Mays is Good Omens’s Arthur Young, and has also been in everything from Vera Drake to Rogue One. And last but not least, Lloyd-Hughes was Sherlock Holmes in the short-lived The Irregulars and, among other roles, did voices for Dragon Age: Inquisition. In short, it is a very British lineup; on his podcast, author Osman said he thought it was “the greatest British cast assembled” since those movies about that wizard kid.
The Thursday Murder Club, which was published in 2020, was a bestseller and spawned a series, of which there are now four books. Presumably if the film, which is being written and directed by Chris Columbus, does well, more movies will follow.
