A pub in Little Missenden is closing for three days next week as film crews take over the village for a new Netflix adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of their arrival.

The production – which has a star-studded cast including Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and David Tennant – was spotted filming in Beaconsfield in July and, despite a temporary decamp across the border to Berkshire, crews are now back in Bucks, this time taking over the picturesque village of Little Missenden, near Amersham.

The Free Press reported yesterday that The Thursday Murder Club would shoot scenes inside and outside The Red Lion pub on Village Road next week, as well as of a main character driving along the central stretch.

Michelle Appleby, a staff member at The Red Lion, added that while the popular pub – which has previously featured in three episodes of Midsomer Murders – will be closed from Wednesday, September 4, to Friday, September 6, the filming is only scheduled to take place on Thursday.

Michelle said she was excited to see the boozer on Netflix at a date still TBA, describing its previous stints on the small screen as good for business and welcomed by excitable villagers, many of whom have enquired about the filming since the closures were announced earlier this month.

Village Road will be closed by the crews between 6:30am and 7:30pm on Thursday, September 5, but Netflix has assured residents that they will still be able to get to and from their properties and provided an alternative parking area for easy vehicle access.

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The Thursday Murder Club, based on Osman’s best-selling murder mystery novel, follows a team of retiree sleuths on the scent of a murder case and stars Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley and Richard E. Grant alongside Brosnan, Mirren and Tennant.

Based in the fictional village of Fairhaven in Kent, the cosy crime tale shot to the top of the Sunday Times bestseller charts after its release in 2020, becoming the first-ever literary debut to nab the Christmas number-one spot.

It’s no wonder producers scouted Little Missenden as a filming location – the rural, pretty hamlet is known for its over-1,000-year-old church, St John the Baptist, its proximity to the River Misbourne and, coincidentally, its history on the big – and smaller – screen.

As well as regularly hosting Midsomer Murders crews, the village was featured in Disney’s 2021 villain origin story Cruella and appeared as the backdrop to the singer Lewis Capaldi’s music video for ‘Wish You The Best’ in spring 2023.

While a release date has yet to be confirmed by filmmakers, the production, which was written and directed by Home Alone creator Chris Columbus and overseen by Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin Entertainment, is expected to hit the platform in late 2025.