My main fear about Netflix's upcoming The Thursday Murder Club movie is that it will lose the quintessential British charm that made Richard Osman's book so enjoyable, and after seeing the new trailer, I’m even more worried.
The trailer is slick, beautiful, full of shiny actors — all things that strike me as being a million miles away from the novel. Let’s start with the crazy casting of Pierce Brosnan as Ron, who, along with Joyce (Celia Imrie), Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), and Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley), solves murders from their retirement village. Brosnan looks magnificently handsome and smooth in the trailer and very much like a man who's played James Bond, because, well, he has.
