‘He’s the guy who made Jaws!’ Richard Osman admits he was ‘thrilled’ when Steven Spielberg bought the rights to his book The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman has expressed his shock over how Steven Spielberg wants to make a movie about his book The Thursday Murder Club.
The TV presenter, 50, admitted on Tuesday’s Good Morning Britain that he was ‘thrilled’ the iconic filmmaker, 73, was keen to work on adapting the novel.
Discussing the exciting news with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, he said: Spielberg is the greatest film director of all. I’m the guy who made Total Wipeout and Deal or No Deal, he’s the guy who made Jaws.
‘He’s the guy who made Jaws!’ Richard Osman admitted on Tuesday’s Good Morning Britain he was ‘thrilled’ when Steven Spielberg bought the rights to his book The Thursday Murder Club
‘It’s a boring story. I was in the office of someone who sells film rights. I was thrilled.’
Richard did say that he has already had a zoom call with Spielberg, as he explained: ‘There’s been lots of chats about it. Spielberg has to cast it.’
Going on to detail the plot of The Thursday Murder Club, and why it is such a hit, he added: ‘It’s about four people in their seventies. They meet up once a week to solve unsolved murders and one week, there’s a murder on their doorstep.
Impressed: Discussing the exciting news, he said: Spielberg is the greatest film director of all. I’m the guy who made Total Wipeout and Deal or No Deal, he’s the guy who made Jaws’
Busy schedule: Richard did say that he has already had a zoom call with Spielberg, as he explained: ‘There’s been lots of chats about it. Spielberg has to cast it’
‘I think the fact the heroes are in their seventies, they are overlooked and underestimated. It’s not cute and cosy. I think it’s been a tough year, 2020.
‘We don’t quite know what’s going to happen. In a crime book, you know on page 350 there will be a solution and I think that’s really comforting for people.’
Piers asked if he had a dream cast in mind for the film, but Richard admitted he couldn’t imagine anyone as his characters as they ‘are very real’ to him.
‘The idea it might be Dame Judi Dench or Julie Walters or Meryl Streep is ridiculous,’ he explained.
Novel: Discussing The Thursday Murder Club, and why it is such a hit, he added: ‘I think the fact the heroes are in their seventies, they are overlooked and underestimated’
Honest: Asked if he had a dream cast in mind, Richard said he couldn’t imagine anyone as his characters and joked the idea of Dame Judi Dench (pictured) being cast was ‘ridiculous’
Spielberg has remained busy this year, as it was reported in October that No Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga had signed on to shoot the first three episodes of Band Of Brothers’ sequel Masters Of The Air.
According to a report from Deadline, the True Detective filmmaker, 43, signed on to work with Apple TV+ on the production, which is once again being helmed by Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
The publication also claimed that shooting will begin in March, with production first starting in London.
New role: Spielberg has remained busy this year, as it was reported in October that Cary Joji Fukunaga had signed on to shoot his Band Of Brothers sequel Masters Of The Air
Exciting: It was reported that the show would consist of 10 episodes, like the original (pictured) and has cost more than $200 million to produce, while filming is said to begin in London
It was reported that the show would consist of 10 episodes, like the original, and has cost more than $200 million to produce.
Masters Of The Air is said to focus on the story of American and British bomber boys who fought in World War II and brought the war to Berlin, where Adolf Hitler was based at the time.
MailOnline contacted Apple TV+ representatives for comment at the time.
Drama: The show is said to focus on the story of American and British bomber boys who fought in World War II and brought the war to Berlin (Damian Lewis and David Schwimmer pictured)