Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club Film Is Now Out

26th August 2025, by Rufus Punt | Read time: 2 minutes

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Calling all crime fiction fans! At long last, bestselling crime novel The Thursday Murder Club has finally been adapted for the screen – with some big names attached.

Written by Pointless presenter Richard Osman, the whodunnit mystery will be turned into a feature-length film, slated to be released by Netflix and is currently confirmed to be starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley. The film is now out in the UK. Here’s what to know.

What is The Thursday Murder Club about?

When it was released in 2020, The Thursday Murder Club became a smash hit, becoming the first debut novel to be ranked No.1 in the book charts at Christmas, and propelling Osman from “the guy from Pointless” to one of the biggest current names in crime fiction. Part of that may have stemmed from everyone desperately wanting an escape in the pandemic, but a lot of it came from the novel’s page-turning mystery and clever plotting. There’s a bit of Agatha Christie and Miss Marple about it: Thursday Murder Club follows a group of pensioners living in Kent, who come together to solve a puzzling murder that befalls their retirement village close to the (fictional) town of Fairhaven. The victim is a builder in charge of a new development that’s about to begin construction at Cooper’s Chase retirement village.

Who’s in the cast?

So who’s been cast as who? The author himself revealed that Dame Helen Mirren plays the role of Elizabeth Best, once a spy, while Pierce Brosnan plays Ron Ritchie, a former union activist, and Sir Ben Kingsley is Ibrahim Arif, an ex-psychiatrist. Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg‘s production company Amblin Entertainment produced the film, and it was directed by Harry Potter and Home Alone director Chris Columbus.

How to watch

The film is out now in select cinemas, and will be released on Netflix globally on 28th August, 2025.

Want more crime fiction? Check out new Netflix series Bodkin, HBO doc The Jinx Part Two, or an immersive Sherlock Holmes mystery at The Lost Estate.

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