Steven Spielberg Visits Set Of Pierce Brosnan & Helen Mirren’s Netflix Murder Mystery In Charming Photo Only4Media.com

A new image from The Thursday Murder Club reveals that three-time Oscar-winning director and producer Steven Spielberg visited the set of the upcoming Netflix movie. The project is based on the 2020 murder mystery novel of the same name by Richard Osman, which follows a group of retired friends who like to get together and discuss unsolved murders, only to have a real-life murder mystery drop into their laps. The star-studded cast of the Chris Columbus-directed project includes Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Richard E. Grant, and James Bond franchise star Pierce Brosnan.

The official Netflix UK & Ireland X account shared a new behind-the-scenes image from the set of The Thursday Murder Club. Check out the post below:

The caption attached to the image teasingly says that there is “nothing to see here,” before gushing about the fact that legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg visited the set along with Richard Osman. Both can be seen posing with the cast in front of a building that may be featured in the movie.

Why Did Steven Spielberg Visit The Thursday Murder Club Set?

The Filmmaker Is Not Involved In The Netflix Movie

Steven Spielberg has long been known as a producer in addition to directing, but he has no credit whatsoever on The Thursday Murder Club, so his appearance on the set of the movie may seem surprising. However, he has many longstanding connections with various members of the cast and crew, including the murder mystery’s director. Spielberg was involved in two major Chris Columbus movies from the very beginning of the filmmaker’s career, producing 1984’s Gremlins and The Goonies, for which the writer-director penned the screenplays (the latter of which based on a story by Spielberg).

There are also quite a few other cast and crew members from The Thursday Murder Club who have worked on previous Steven Spielberg movies. This includes Ben Kingsley, who played a major role in the director’s Best Picture-winning 1993 Holocaust drama Schindler’s List. Spielberg was also a producer on 2014’s The Hundred-Foot Journey, which starred Helen Mirren. Additionally, he has previously worked with Thursday Murder Club‘s producer Jennifer Todd, when he made a cameo in her 2002 movie Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Considering his deep connections to the cast and crew of The Thursday Murder Club, it makes sense that he may have been tempted to visit the set even though he is not directly involved in the project. Throughout his career, he has been known to be involved behind the scenes on unrelated sets, in ways both large and small, belying the general abiding love of filmmaking that he showcased in his recent semiautobiographical effort The Fabelmans.

Source: Netflix UK & Ireland/X