The millions of fans of Richard Osman’s bestselling crime capers won’t need telling, but is about to land on Netflix (and the odd cinema). Adapted from the first book in the series, first published in 2020, it’s an origin story that revolves around a small band of crime-solving retirees who aren’t ready to go out to pasture and the grisly murders they set about investigating.

Directed by Chris Columbus, the movie’s quintessentially English backdrop is another bit of immersive world-building from filmmaker and his team, including production designer James Merifield ( The Deep Blue Sea ).

Merifield talks Time Out through how the often deadly world of Coopers Chase retirement home and its picturesque surrounds came to be.

What is The Thursday Murder Club about?

A gang of pensi

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