We’re just a week or so away from The Thursday Murder Club adaptation hitting Netflix, and to celebrate, Richard Osman, Chris Columbus, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie took part in a special evening hosted by the British Library to preview the upcoming movie .

Richard Osman kicked off proceedings, talking about how the book, which has now sold over 15 million copies globally, came to be, explaining that he’d never intended for it to be a published book, let alone a movie, and said that it’s based on his mother’s retirement home in Sussex. “It’s very beautiful, very bucolic. There are birds in the trees and blue skies. And I just thought this would be an amazing place for a murder,” Osman said, adding, “I would go down there and I’d talk to the people who my m

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