The Thursday Murder Club movie was filmed in the UK in the summer of 2024 ahead of its release on Netflix on August 28, 2025. It will also be getting a limited cinema release in the UK on August 22, 2025.
For anyone unfamiliar with Richard Osman's hit book, it tells the story of four unlikely friends (Ron, Elizabeth, Joyce, and Ibrahim) who meet up once a week and discuss unsolved murders at the titular club in their peaceful retirement community called Coopers Chase.
They're then thrown into an actual murder case when a dodgy property developer is found dead on their doorstep. The film version boasts an all-star cast with Helen Mirren as Elizabeth, Pierce Brosnan as Ron, Celia Imrie as Joyce, and Sir Ben Kingsley as Ibrahim.
Further cast includes David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Naomi Ackie, and Jonathan Pryce. But where was the Thursday Murder Club movie filmed? Here we investigate…
Shepperton Studios, Surrey
A lot of the film was shot in Shepperton Studios in Surrey. The biggest film studio in Europe is now a major site for Netflix productions, with Bridgerton also shot there. Shepperton Studios has been the location for several huge movie shoots including Top Gun: Maverick, Cruella, and Sonic The Hedgehog. The studios were no doubt used for a lot of the internal shots in the Thursday Murder Club movie.
St Mark's Church, Theale, West Berkshire
On the set of #TheThursdayMurderClub Steven Spielberg meets a competition winner. pic.twitter.com/EMD6lkMx3gAugust 13, 2024
Richard Osman posted the picture above of himself and legendary director Steven Spielberg on location for the Thursday Murder Club with a historic building in the background. This encouraged everybody to start doing their own detective work to find out where they were. Well, according to the local site, the Reading Chronicle, that building is St. Mark's Church, near Theale.
They say Richard Osman's picture looks identical to the church, and it's hard to disagree when studying photos. What lends further weight to this theory (which we now know is true!) is that the church is situated within the Englefield Estate and someone spied a Coopers Chase sign being put up, which is the name of the retirement community where Elizabeth, Ron, Joyce, and Ibrahim live. What's more, the Englefield Estate also featured as a location in another Netflix series recently, Bridgerton season 3.
In a June 2024 post on Instagram, Engfield House wrote: "If you've been inspired by the beautiful gardens in the new season of Bridgerton and want to spend a morning or afternoon wandering amongst stunning floral displays, take time over the summer months to visit the gardens at Englefield House."
From reading the books, we know that Coopers Chase is an expensive retirement community, so the stunning gardens around Englefield House made it an ideal location.
Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire
The Thursday Murder Club cast and crew were spotted in Little Missenden in Buckinghamshire over the summer of 2024. According to Bucks Free Press, filming took place in various locations in the pretty village, including The Red Lion pub. It's not the first time the village has been on screen. Little Missenden has also been used as a location on ITV’s long-running crime drama series Midsomer Murders.
Gaddesden Place, Hertfordshire
Gaddesden Place was used for some of the interior scenes for Coopers Chase. The 18th-century English country house has been used in TV and films many times before, including in Foyle's War, Spooks, and Jonathan Creek.
When we get news of more filming locations for the Thursday Murder Club we will update this article...
