Sleuths of a certain age: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan star in Netflix's 'Thursday Murder Club'

Netflix has announced that production on Thursday Murder Club , a movie adaptation of Richard Osman 's bestseller of the same name, has gotten underway -- and a killer cast of senior stars are aboard the whodunnit.

Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley , as well as Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce , and Pierce Brosnan are starring in the project, which the streamer teases is about "a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun but find themselves caught in a real case."

The senior sleuths include ex-spy Elizabeth, played by Mirren; retired psychiatrist Ibrahim, portrayed by Kingsley; former union activist Ron, played by Brosnan; and former nurse Joyce, played by The Diplomat 's Celia Imrie .

Thursday Murder Club was written and is being directed by Harry Potter franchise and The Help veteran Chris Columbus . The movie's cast also includes Doctor Who 's David Tennant , Raiders of the Lost Ark 's Paul Freeman , and Logan 's Richard E. Grant .

A release date has yet to be announced.