‘The Postcard Killings,’ a crime thriller starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is currently the number 1 movie on Netflix in the US, according to the specialized website FlixPatrol. The film has been climbing the charts during the week. In just two days, the movie skyrocketed from the eighth spot to clinch the top position.
The film premiered back in 2020 to mostly negative reviews and lukewarm box office grossings, but that hasn’t stopped audiences from connecting to it. Directed by Academy Award winner Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land), the film follows a detective investigating a serial killer.
Cush Jumbo, known for The Good Wife, plays journalist Dessie Lombard, while Famke Janssen (X-Men) portrays Kanon’s wife, Valerie. The rest of the cast of the film includes: Joachim Król, Steven Mackintosh, Naomi Battrick, Ruairi O’Connor, Denis O’Hare, Eva Röse, Lukas Loughran and more.
Is ‘The Postcard Killings’ based on a true story?
The film follows Detective Kanon, who has to investigate a series of murders in Europe. They are all connected trough postcards sent to local journalists before the crimes are committed. To try to find the person or group responsible for the crimes, Kanon teams up with journalist Lombard.
As there are many crime thrillers based on true stories or true serial killers, there are many people wondering if there’s any truth behind the film. However, that’s not the case. The movie was based on Liza Marklund and James Patterson’s novel of the same name. Andrew Stern and Ellen Furman adapted the script.
However, per Screen Rant, there was a serial killer known as “The Postcard Killer” and his name was J. Frank Hickey. But neither author said that they took inspiration from the real life story.
Patterson and Marklund’s novel interested Hollywood since its publication back in 2010. However, the film was stuck in development hell. Some of the names that were attached included Patrick Dempsey to play Jacob Kanon, director Paul Greengrass and Dakota Fanning.
