Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and David Tennant are heading back to Buckinghamshire as filming for Netflix’s adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club shuts down a local pub today.

The streamer’s production of the first novel in Richard Osman’s best-selling murder-mystery series began shooting in south-east England back in June and after a spell across the border in Berkshire, crews are heading to a popular filming spot in Bucks this week.

A staff member at The Red Lion in Little Missenden, near Amersham, told the Free Press that Netflix plans to shoot scenes inside and outside the pub tomorrow, Thursday, September 5.

Michelle Appleby, who works behind the bar at The Red Lion, said the filming meant the pub would be closed to customers from today, September 4, until Friday, September 6.

Village Road in Little Missenden will also be closed between 6:30am and 7:30pm tomorrow, and filmmakers appear to be popping back to Stratton Road in Beaconsfield on the same day, likely to finish scenes originally shot in the affluent residential area back in July.

The Thursday Murder Club, which was published in 2020 and has since spawned three other books in its series, follows four friends living at a retirement home in Kent who gather weekly to pour over unsolved crimes.

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When a local property developer is murdered, however, they find themselves in the middle of a live investigation – prompting ex-spy Elizabeth, ex-nurse Joyce, ex-psychiatrist Ibrahim and ex-union activist Ron to put on their sleuthing hats and track down a killer.

Netflix’s highly anticipated adaptation of the novel is based on a screenplay co-written by Chris Columbus, known for his work on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Home Alone, and is set to be released in late 2025.

Excitement for the project has been buoyed by a series of top-shelf casting announcements, with the current line-up including Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, David Tennant, Ben Kingsley, Richard E. Grant, Celia Imrie and Tom Ellis.

As if that wasn’t enough star power, the film is being produced by Academy Award-winner Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin – and the famous director stopped by the picturesque-looking set last month to check in with those working on the ground.

Spielberg bought the rights to adapt Osman’s book shortly after its release in 2020 – and the production is one of several lined up for a partnership between Netflix and Amblin, including the action-thriller Carry On, starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, which will be released in December.