London:
Actor Helen Mirren, one of the stars in Thursday’s murder clubA movie about a group of retirees who enjoy cracking unresolved murder cases said it’s great to see older people’s life experiences celebrated on screen on Thursday.
Eight -year -old Mirren plays the former spy Elizabeth Best in the new Netflix mystery, which along with his other impressive retired friends – played by Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie – finds herself with a real murder to solve.
“We underestimate the elderly. I did it when I was 25 years old,” Mirren said at the film’s premiere in London. “It is quite true that young people feel like the world is theirs and no one has ever done what they do before, you know, but of course the reality is every generation has done everything they do.”
Directed by Chris Columbus, the movie is based on Richard Osman’s 2020 best -selling novel of the same name. “I’m not planning at all,” Osman said of his writing process. “I literally have a rough idea of what can happen. I have a little vri somewhere, but I literally write one chapter at a time and see what happens,” he said.
By describing the film, one of the screenwriters, Katy Brand, said it mixes “serious, heartfelt warmth” and moments of silliness, humor and satire.
“All this kind of genre that we have in this country with that kind of Sunday night crime drama … where amateur Sleuthing takes place, but it has also got evil,” Osman said.
As for the future, with three more novels in the series already out and a fifth installment from Osman planned for the fall, he hopes there will be more films. “Certainly if it is doing well,” he said. “I think the role crew had such a great time last summer filming this. So I think they would like to spend next summer filming another too. Fingers crossed.” Said Osman.
Netflix nflx.o begins streaming Thursday’s murder club On August 28th.
