Netflix' fortolkning af Richard Osmans The Thursday Murder Club fik premiere i slutningen af august og samler en stjernespækket cast af pensionister, der samarbejder om at opklare en kold sag. Filmen har endnu ikke givet grønt lys til en opfølger, men da der er flere bøger i serien, er muligheden bestemt til stede.
Instruktør Christopher Columbus har i et interview med Collider forklaret, at han allerede har studeret de øvrige bøger for at forme karaktererne mere dybdegående. Han håber samtidig, at en efterfølger kan besvare diskussionen om, hvordan filmen afviger fra bøgerne, særligt hvad angår Bogdans anholdelse i slutningen.
Columbus forklarer:
"I was able to give Joyce, or I was able to give Celia [Imrie] and Helen, and Pierce [Brosnan] and Sir Ben [Kingsley] pages of either dialogue or character description that were essential for their character. So they could read those and bring that to the character. So everything that was done in the first film is really a setup for subsequent films to come."
Og om Bogdans skæbne:
"Bogdan is arrested at the end of the first film. And in the book, he's not arrested... Never, it was never our intention to keep Bogdan out of those films. I should have actually ended the first film like they ended all of the great James Bond films in the past with 'Bogdan will return in The Man Who Died Twice'. So, of course, he's going to come back."
Så selvom filmen tager nogle kreative friheder, er det tydeligt, at Bogdan og resten af holdet sandsynligvis vender tilbage, hvis en opfølger bliver lavet. Har du fået set The Thursday Murder Club endnu, og håber du på, at de laver en fortsættelse?