Steven Spielberg is now working with Netflix: he even hired this legendary director from the 90s

News culture Steven Spielberg is now working with Netflix: he even hired this legendary director from the 90s

At over 70 years old, Steven Spielberg is one of Hollywood’s most famous directors and makes it a point to stay in the spotlight. If we know him primarily through his cult films such as “Jaws” or “Jurassic Park”, he still releases or is thinking about releasing almost one film a year. However, Spielberg is a versatile man who had the time, but above all the opportunity, to step away from his directorial hat. In his latest feature film, for example: The Fabelmans

He tried his hand at the script. Someth ing he had already experienced in the field of AI more than 10 years ago, for example. However, aside from these activities, Spielberg primarily works as a producer and is responsible for financing talented ideas. A few days ago, Deadline informed us that it had hired one of the most famous directors of the 90s a new project on Netflix .

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Steven Spielberg is already at work

Steven Spielberg finally gets to work on the adaptation The book The Thursday Murder Club with his production company Amblin Entertainment. After acquiring the rights in 2020, we rightly wondered where this production was, but here it is, finally starting. Always after deadline, Chris Columbus will be in production (Harry Potter 1 and 2, Mrs Doubtfire or Mom I Missed the Plane). In this film we find a group of retired friends who are busy solving murders for fun. Except that a real investigation is finally underway: that of the murder of a famous real estate developer. We should find something in the casting Helen Mirren in the role of Elizabeth, an ex-spy, Ben Kingsley will be Ibrahim, a former psychiatrist, and Pierce Brosnan plays Ron, a former trade unionist. Only Joyce’s role is still being negotiated.

After several filming postponements, the film The Thursday Murder It finally seems to be on the right track, says the already enthusiastic best-selling author. “I’m so proud of this book, it’s a dream to see The Thursday Murder Club in such incredible hands,” he said. The man speaks in his podcast The Rest Is Entertainment mentioned a start of filming in mid-June, until the end of September. In addition, in the event of success for Netflix, we can already imagine that several sequels could be produced, because in fact this book is just the beginning of a successful literary series that will continue with The Next Thursday (2021) or The Mystery of the Lost Ball (2022). In any case, this film shines de glass onion already has everything your heart desires.