The Thursday Murder Club: Everything Is Eclipsed by the Cakes in This Sanitised Netflix Adaptation

How Christopher Columbus Reunited with Steven Spielberg for Netflix’s ‘The Thursday Murder Club’

In the 1980s Christopher Columbus, who would go on to direct “Home Alone” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” (along with kickoff the “Harry Potter” film franchise), was key to establishing what a “Steven Spielberg presents” movie really was. After Spielberg purchased Columbus’ spec script for “Gremlins,” he installed the young writer at Spielberg’s nascent Amblin Entertainment. Columbus was there with producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. Composer Jo…

The Thursday Murder Club: everything is eclipsed by the cakes in this sanitised Netflix adaptation

In his essay Decline of the English Murder, the writer George Orwell evokes the pleasure to be had in reading about killing. After a good meal (including pudding), you are in the mood to read: “the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm.” And what is it, in “these blissful circumstances”, that you want to read about? “Naturally,” says Orwell, “a murder”. Substitute Orwell’s fires for contemporary radiator…

Chris Columbus Knows How to Adapt a Bestseller, and He's Done It Again with 'The Thursday Murder Club'

“I fell in love with the book and I knew it was a film I had to make,” the director says.

The Joyce from the book is completely missing in The Thursday Murder Club movie

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