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Pierce Brosnan felt ‘huge responsibility’ towards fans of the book

Yasmin Rufo

Cultural reporter

Getty Images (L) Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Celia Imrie and Sir Ben Kingsley "Thursday Murder Club" On August 21, 2025, London is in Leicester Square in England. Getty Images

Dame Helen, Brosnan, Imrie and Sir I completed the quartet of the Murder Club Thursday

Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club Book Series is one of the most successful ones – more than 10 million copies have been sold, all four books have broken sales records of England, and the fifth installment will be published in autumn.

So, it is not surprising that the film adaptation is a little nervous about how the fans will get the film.

Pierce Brosnan, speaking with BBC, says that nerves have increased in the last few weeks. He continued: “A mass and a great responsibility when you have a world waiting to see these characters.”

The film usually sees that it has become a well -groomed Irish Ron.

Brosnan also admits that he thinks another actor when he reads Ron’s part.

“I didn’t ask Chris why he threw me,” says Brosnan. “I thought: ‘This Ray Winstone, my brother'”. But the actor doubted himself and remembers to think: “Pierce don’t say anything, just go on.”

Netflix LR - Imrie, Sir Ben, Dame Helen and Brosnan Thursday Murder Club characters Netflix

It seems willing to make a quadruple sequel

Dame Helen Mirren’s Elizabeth, Celia Imrie’s Joyce and Sir Ben Kingsley’s Ibrahim completed a quartet united to investigate the murder – as long as the local bus follows the timeline.

The result is a group that solves the later years in a Pastoral Pension Village Coopers Chase.

Brosnan said that his common stars help to alleviate the nerves and “had a great time in the group.

A BRANCE BREAK

Apparently, 72 -year -old Sir I created a particularly close friendship with 81 and tells the double BBC how they enjoy knowing each other better on the set.

“We stood around and chatted about the things we love, and we discovered that we love both Laurel and Hardy,

The participation of Steven Spielberg in the two -hour adventure is directed by Jaws Director’s production company Amblin and Chris Columbus of Harry Potter and Homeway Fame.

Sir I say it is the first thing that attracts its attention, the script is a last contribution.

“This is a beautiful script and very unique English – a new old British film.”

Getty Images (LR) Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley Netflix "Thursday Murder Club" New York screening in New York on August 14, 2025 in New York in New York in New YorkGetty Images

Brosnan and Sir I tied their love for Laurel and Hardy

The best choice to play Elizabeth, the mysterious group leader of many readers, confesses to thinking the same when he first read the novel.

“I did in a shameful way. When you read this book, you think it could be a movie immediately, and then, if so, I wonder if they wouldn’t approach me to play this role, because I would love to play it. It was a little miracle for me when I did it.”

73 -year -old Imrie, who played former nurse Joyce, adopted an opposite approach and did not read the book until it was thrown.

Imrie said, “My dear friends occasionally said: ‘You know, you’ll be very good for that, but I’m quite superstitious’.” “I didn’t want to scare things. I ran to the bookstore as soon as I spilled.”

The film received mixed criticism from critics. In a two -star review, Telegraph’s Robbie Collin Adaptation of “treacherously lazy” adaptation, “a slightly more than a semi -hearted parody of a Whodunnit”.

Award from Independent Clarisse Loughrey Two stars, saying that the film cannot benefit from the All-Star cast in the best way and that it is “very unstable and digested”, there is a clear, legible and even a mystery clue.

There was a more positive review Times from Kevin Maer“There are too many heavy fairs,” but he gave the film Four Star and added: “Camp and quietly sad, a franchise is born”.

A medium Guardian’s three -star review from Peter Bradshaw He said, “A lot of things to enjoy” and “a kind of senior citizen who is sometimes invisible to the collective superpower, similar to the X-Men group.”

Netflix Dame Helen Mirren is looking at a paper from a magnifying glass at the Murder ClubNetflix

Dame Helen Mirren said that after reading the book, she hoped to approach the role in the film.

Cosy-Crime will be in theaters for a week before starting to be broadcast on Netflix.

The cinematic version is a bit limited to only 30 cinemas, and something Dame Helen says is “disappointment”.

“I think he’d be successful in the cinema, and I wish he’d stayed a little longer,” he says, he added why the version was so limited, “no idea”, he added.

However, Osman says it is a difficult time to assign films, so he grateful for his support to Netflix.

Brosnan, the best known BBC to play the role of James Bond, spoke with BBC about who will get the next 007 role.

The authority says who will take a “good lawyer” to take a good lawyer “and will take a very close look at his contracts as” full of surprises “.

He spoke of a subtle reference to the unexpected abolition experience of the role and about bending the fifth film as “half -way with negotiations” more than twenty years ago.

He remembered that he received the news from blue. Finally, the producers restarted Franchise with Rolde Craig.

Through Getty Images Pierce Brosnan, the XNY/Star Max/GC Images was a very wide grin while laughing while signing signatures outside the New York Hotel. Dapper is wearing a blue suit with a white shirt and striking aviator sunglasses. One has a crowd of signature hunters dressed in the outfit of white sailors.Xny/Star Max/GC Images through Getty Images

Brosnan mentioned how to bend as a “blue” bond before

The first day of the shots for the quartet was an emotional scene for a Darüceze. For Imrie, it covers a wider theme for the film.

“It was full of what was hanging on the story, not in a morbid way, but we are in the bed of a dying person, and we are all an age where it will happen, or he says.

“This was the starting point, I think it gives the film some ballast,” Sir I adds. “This is not a small comedy. There are some layers … A basic note passing through.”

Dame Helen accepts: “The great success of these books, isn’t it, the fact that Richard’s true sadness, life always involves death … But there is also this wonderful, natural humanitarian comedy that always foams.”

As for whether they will return to Coopers Chase in the not too far away, Dame Helen and Brosnan are enthusiastic. “Yes, absolutely,” they answer. The adventures of this A-List Ensemble may have just begun.

Thursday Murder Club can be watched on Netflix on Thursday, August 28th.

Additional reports by George Bowden.

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