Recently, the best-selling British novel series "Thursday Mystery Club" announced the cast of the film series of the same name. According to foreign media reports, the film will be produced by Spielberg's production company Abelin, directed by Chris Columbus, director of the "Harry Potter" series of films, and written by Richard Osman, the author of the original book.
The series of stories takes place in an upscale retirement community in the British countryside, where resident Elizabeth was once an ace agent of the British intelligence organization, she does not want to grow old in a wheelchair in diapers, and forms a "Thursday Mystery Club" with former worker leader Ron, former nurse Joyce, and psychiatrist Ibrahim who live here to study the mystery files that have not been solved for many years. Soon after, a real murder happened around them, and the four of them showed their magic and teamed up to solve it.
Three installments in the "Thursday Reasoning Club" series
By Richard Osman
The "Thursday Reasoning Club" series has been published four times, with global sales exceeding 10 million copies, and has been called a "phenomenal publication" by professional data company Nielsen. The first three Chinese Simplified Chinese editions of the series have been introduced and published by Jieli Publishing House, with a circulation of more than 150,000 copies. The first "Thursday Reasoning Club" topped the best-selling lists of many new books such as Dangdang and Douyin with its humorous, healing case-solving story and witty and cute four-person detective team; The second part of the series, "Thursday Mystery Club: The Man Who Lived Twice", and the third "Thursday Mystery Club: Disappearing Bullet" appeared on the Douban New Book List after their release, and were selected as the annual Douban Mystery Novel Suspense List, and the entire series was widely praised in the Chinese readership.
In order to produce the classic series of films, Spielberg spent four years creating an ultra-luxurious cast. Judging from the actors announced so far, the actors of the protagonist group are:
Pierce Brosnan, who was called "the most handsome 007 in history" by the audience
He will play the role of Ron, the former worker leader in the novel
Helen Mirren for Best Actress at the 78th Academy Awards
Will play the role of Elizabeth, a retired agent
The 55th Academy Award for Best Actor Ben Kingsley
He will play the role of Ibrahim, a psychiatrist
Nurse Joyce, a first-person diary chronicle of the day-to-day life of the Thursday Mystery Club, is a reader's favorite character, and her cast is still in the process of secret casting.
How will four elderly detectives with an average age of 77.5 years old rely on their brainpower to solve big cases that stump young people? This is perhaps the most eagerly awaited by moviegoers.
In the first part of the series, "Thursday Reasoning Club" is about a serial murder that happened in a nursing home; In the second "Thursday Reasoning Club: The Man Who Lived Twice", they broke through the difficulties set by the British Military Intelligence Service and international gangsters to solve the "20 million pound diamond theft"; In the third part of "Thursday Reasoning Club: Disappearing Bullets", the old people opened the information bag of the tax evasion case that had been sealed for many years, and a hidden murder case, a bullet hit them at the same time......
Every case is a collision of years of sin and calmness. The four members of the Thursday Reasoning Club are no longer young and physically strong, but their rich experience and enduring vitality have brewed a wine of wisdom that is enough to extinguish any evil and enlighten every young man who has fallen astray.
Richard Osman's four protagonists have very different personalities, each with a wonderful past: Ibrahim, 80, has a sophisticated and well-read life; Ron, 75, has a short temper and a strong sense of justice; The 76-year-old Elizabeth has a keen sense of smell and excellent ability, which can be called the soul of the team; The 78-year-old Joyce has a knack for soothing people and has always been a softening agent for conflicts.
Author of the series "Thursday Reasoning Club".
Richard Osman
The author leads the people who enter the story to wander through the current case and the "past" of the four protagonists, including the cruelty in front of them, the vanishing youth, the love and passion that have not yet faded, and the acquaintance and companionship that will never fade. Their profound thinking from the precipitation of the years and from the considerable experience is full of wisdom and philosophy in the story of the "Thursday Reasoning Club".
In addition to British humor, the author's ingenious case setting and high-speed plot advancement are all reasons why the series of novels is widely sought after.
The English version of the "Thursday Mystery Club" series has published four works, each telling a complete crime-solving story. As early as the beginning of the creation of the novel, the author Richard Osman has a deep foundation in film and television drama writing and directing, and divides each book into several small chapters according to the rhythm of the film narrative, each chapter is 1500-3000 words, which is easy to read.
In addition, this scripted creation method and colorful scene sense allow people to directly generate the lens language during the reading process, and the reading process is like watching a short video. Perhaps this is the reason why director Spielberg decided to buy the film and television adaptation rights of the entire series just by seeing the manuscript of the book.
The highly anticipated Chinese Simplified Chinese version of the fourth book, Thursday Reasoning Club: The Last Demon (tentative title), will be published by Relay Press and is expected to be available in August 2024.
Thursday Mystery Club: The Last Demon (tentative cover)
The "Thursday Reasoning Club" series discusses death, memory, loneliness, aging, age, friendship, family and other issues through a unique perspective, and the core is rich, which is also the real shining point of the series.
In the forthcoming fourth installment of the series, "Thursday Mystery Club: The Last Demon" (tentative title), the threat of death looms over them again, but they choose to cherish the person in front of them, cherish every time they get together, and solve the case by the way.
They still live with everything: they are curious about everything new, they study fan reviews on social networking sites, they like handsome old men, they try to write their own novels, and they solve crimes with young people...... They defend the halo of life from themselves and others, and pursue the beauty and goodness hidden in the truth.
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