Thursday Murder Club Fantasy Casting Thread.

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Who should play Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, Ron, Bogdan, Stephen, Donna, Chris, Patrice, Pauline, and Computer Bob?

Jason needs to be about 50 and Henry was born 1985.

Oh right! He wasn't as old as that in my head.

David Tennant?!

Brilliant. I didn't know any of this.

I can't think who David Tennant will be. Any guesses? I think Daniel Mays as Chris is a good one.

This has appeared on Richard Osman's twitter feed.
Very curious which characters they will portray.

Ingrid Oliver is Richard's wife (just sharing - not judgment passed either way).

Is Sarah Niles Patrice?

It's been a while since I read the first book do I googled for a list of characters:

https://www.bookcompanion.com/thethursdayymurderclubbcharacter_list.html

That's a good call!

Mrs Osman is playing Joyce's daughter, per Richard's podcast. He swears he had nothing to do with the casting.

Hmm but I’m sure being the author’s wife didn’t do her any harm either!

Richard E Grant has to be the smarmy owner of the retirement community, doesn’t he?

Who do we think is the retired priest?

Well, yes, once they'd decided to get her in for an audition it would be a brave director who'd say "no, I thought she was crap, we're going with Kate Beckinsale "

To be fair it's quite a small role in the book

Betty White will always be Joyce in my head ❤️

Oh I was thinking about this thread earlier!

How about Daisy May Cooper as Connie Johnson? Got that mix of comedy and menace! She'd be fabulous drooling over Bogdan and bossing the prison guards around!

She'd be bloody fantastic

Is Tom Ellis playing...Bogdan?!

Oh blimey. What do we think about this? Hmm not sure.

I'm worried the accent will be slightly farcical, with any English actor playing Bogdan.

Another possible Bogdan:

www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/the-thursday-murder-club-film-cast-the-stars-of-the-richard-osman-adaptation-including-david-tennant-4673435?page=3

I hope they tell us soon!

I’m watching Henry Lloyd Hughes in Ragdoll on U at the moment since I finished The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and I can really see him as Bogdan. I wasn’t really familiar with him before.

That's interesting both on the Thursday Murder Club and the U count - I don't even know what it is and it recently popped up on our firestick. I'll look up Ragdoll.

But recurring though