It was lately confirmed that Peacock was formally transferring ahead with a Monk film! Tony Shalhoub will probably be again to reprise his position as obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk, and the actor has shared the primary particulars for the movie, which is about after the COVID pandemic. During an interview with EW, he teased:
“It’s Monk present day after however long we’ve been away from him, 13 years now, going on 14 years. This is post-covid. Monk has been knocked back on his heels because of covid. He’s older. He’s not going to be chasing down things on the street and things like that. Hopefully (laughs). We’re going to have to write to the fact that Monk’s older.”
He went on to say the movie will inform a “actually fascinating story,” and teased, “I am unable to say an excessive amount of about it, nevertheless it’s obtained all the good components that the present was at all times striving for with a couple of new twists.”
It’s going to be really interesting and fun seeing how Monk is living his life after the events of the series and after living through a pandemic. Monk is a genius detective whose Obsessive Compulsive Disorder both hinders his daily life, but also gives him the preternatural powers of observation.
Shalhoub went on to share his pleasure, saying:
“I’m actually enthusiastic about revisiting it as a result of after we ended it, it actually felt like that was going to be it. But to have this chance to to see the place all of us are [is special]. All of the characters have gone by some adjustments in these years.”
There aren’t really any other details on the show, but the original cast will return along with the original writing team. Some of the other characters in the series include his original assistant Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), Captain Leland Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine), Lt. Randy Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford), and his second assistant Natalie Teeger (Traylor Howard) and her daughter Julie (Emmy Clarke).
He additionally revealed that the movie is about to start capturing this May in Toronto.
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