Only in (some) cinemas
Sep. 2nd, 2025 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatsiI'd known for a while that a film adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club was underway, but disappointed to hear it was being made by Netflix and concerned that it would be exclusively available on their platform. However, it is at least on some kind of cinema release, so I went along to the Showcase in Winnersh yesterday.
How does it compare to the book? Well, it's recognisably the same story and I enjoyed it, although it feels like there are some omissions and some additions. In my mind I'd cast Celia Imrie as Elizabeth, Thema Barlow as Joyce, the voice of Indarjit Singh as Ibrahim, while never really settling on a characterisation of Ron (Former football manager Ron Atkinson, perhaps, but only as some sort of default). Tempus fugit, as it turns out: Celia Imrie is now Joyce; Pierce Brosnan has aged into Ron; Ben Kingsley's clipped and impeccable English is Ibrahmin; and Helen Mirren is a cold Elizabeth. Rather than being a purpose-built low-rise retirement village, Coopers Chase is in fact the nearby Englefield House. I think I preferred the book, and I'm inclined to prioritise a re-read. But even though it's not quite how I'd imagined it, it works.
How does it compare to the book? Well, it's recognisably the same story and I enjoyed it, although it feels like there are some omissions and some additions. In my mind I'd cast Celia Imrie as Elizabeth, Thema Barlow as Joyce, the voice of Indarjit Singh as Ibrahim, while never really settling on a characterisation of Ron (Former football manager Ron Atkinson, perhaps, but only as some sort of default). Tempus fugit, as it turns out: Celia Imrie is now Joyce; Pierce Brosnan has aged into Ron; Ben Kingsley's clipped and impeccable English is Ibrahmin; and Helen Mirren is a cold Elizabeth. Rather than being a purpose-built low-rise retirement village, Coopers Chase is in fact the nearby Englefield House. I think I preferred the book, and I'm inclined to prioritise a re-read. But even though it's not quite how I'd imagined it, it works.