‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Gets First Trailer

Matt Grobar

Thu, May 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM UTC

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Netflix has released the first teaser for The Thursday Murder Club, a murder mystery adaptation of Richard Osman's bestseller starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie, set to premiere on August 28.
The film follows four retirees who enjoy solving cold case murders for fun, but their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when a real murder occurs in their retirement village, leading to a genuine whodunit investigation.
The screenplay for The Thursday Murder Club was adapted by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote, with a star-studded cast including Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, David Tennant, and Richard E. Grant, produced through a partnership between Netflix and Amblin Entertainment.

Netflix has unveiled the first teaser for The Thursday Murder Club , its anticipated adaptation of the international bestseller by Richard Osman that is set to premiere August 28.

Directed by Chris Columbus, the murder mystery stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie as four irrepressible retirees — Elizabeth (Mirren), Ron (Brosnan), Ibrahim (Kingsley) and Joyce (Imrie) — who spend their time solving cold case murders for fun. When an unexplained death occurs on their own doorstep, their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn as they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands.

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The trailer opens with Elizabeth discussing a cold case for the group to look into from May 11, 1973, involving a woman thrown out of a window and onto the street below.

"Oh my god!" says Joyce, barging in. "Isn't this room usually for jigsaws?"

"Not on a Thursday, no," Elizabeth says.

This is Joyce's introduction to the retirement village of Coopers Chase, where she and her fellow retirees investigate murders. While initially perhaps put off by their investigations, she gets in on the action when a murder takes place in the present day.

"There's been a murder, an actual murder! Now we've got a real case to solve. Isn't it wonderful?" she tells the group. "Obviously, R.I.P. and all that…"

Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote adapted the screenplay for the film, produced through a partnership between Netflix and Amblin Entertainment. The cast also includes Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Tom Ellis, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Paul Freeman, Geoff Bell, Richard E. Grant and Ingrid Oliver.

Jennifer Todd and Columbus produced, with Jo Burn, Osman, Eleanor Columbus, Holly Bario and Jeb Brody serving as executive producers.

Watch the trailer above.

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