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The Thursday Murder Club gets an all-star cast

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The cast for the movie adaptation of crime novel The Thursday Murder Club has been revealed, and it’s an all-star line-up.

The Thursday Murder Club follows a group of pensioners living in a luxury retirement community who set out to solve the murder of a property developer. Author Richard Osman revealed that Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, and Ben Kingsley will play three of the four sleuths on his podcastThe Rest is Entertainment: Mirren will play Elizabeth, Brosnan will play Ron, and Kingsley will play Ibrahim. The casting for Joyce, the fourth main character, is still under wraps.

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