The Arconia neighborhood community opened the doors of the staircase in August 2021 with an unlikely alliance: the one formed by two comedy veterans such as Steve Martin and Martin Short with the singer, actress and producer Selena Gomez. Critics enthusiastically embraced Only Murders in the Building and its formula based on mystery, comedy and melancholy, and now Hollywood seems to be lining up to be part of the project.
If the third season surprised by including a Marvel star like Paul Rudd (Ant-man) and the triple Oscar winner Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), now the notable signings are accumulating for a fourth that, as a curiosity, will take place partially in Los Angeles:
After being Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives for eight seasons, which allowed her to earn up to $400,000 per episode, Eva Longoria became one of the key figures of the Latin community in the audiovisual industry from her role as a producer. Series such as Maids and Wicked, the American adaptation of Gran Hotel or Gordita Chronicles are an example of this later career.
In Just Murders in the Building he is expected to play “a character who will be an integral part of the twists and turns of the season's investigation.” It cannot be said that the previews by Hulu, the American platform owned by Disney that produces the mystery comedy, are very explicit.
One of the comedy queens of the United States due to her work on Saturday Night Live, she will be “a powerful businesswoman from Los Angeles who is attracted to the world of research in New York.” Shannon signs for Just Murders in the Building after having become (once again) the darling of critics for her work in The Other Two, a comedy that makes fun of the entertainment industry based on a story by Justin Bieber.
For years he was considered “the father of American Pie”, as well as an infallible supporting actor for any comedy worth its salt. Now, after the late success of Schitt's Creek, he was crowned with an Emmy for best lead actor as a ruined millionaire who had to relocate to a seedy motel in a depressed town. In this next job, Levy will be another of the people related to the crime of the season.
And, among these suspects, an actor and screenwriter who also has no shortage of offers. Kumail Nanjiani, nominated for an Oscar for The Great Love Sickness, is best known for his superhero role in Marvel's Eternals, the HBO comedy Silicon Valley or his participation in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
And, rounding off the quintet (for now) of signings, Zach Galifianakis, Alan in the Hangover franchise, who has also worked on cult comedies such as Bored to Death or Baskets, which he created with Louie C.K.
These collaborations are added to Martin, Short and Gomez, who reprise the characters of Charles-Haden Savage, Oliver Putnam and Mabel Mora, and Meryl Streep, who will continue on the payroll as Loretta Durkin, an actress ignored throughout her career and who is now in The senior finds success after working with Oliver and falling in love with him during an eventful Broadway play.
Neighbors of the Arconia such as Michael Cyril Creighton and Jackie Hoffman or Jane Lynch as Sazz Pataki are also expected to return after the end of the third season where she appeared dead in Charles-Haden's apartment characterized as him. Since she was her double on television, everything indicates that she was murdered by someone who had their target on Steve Martin's character.
Regarding the partial move to Los Angeles, it is not difficult to understand why the plot can partially take place in California: Meryl Streep's character has a job there and Mabel also received the offer to visit the director played by Jesse Williams. Is the production, by any chance, considering a reset of locations thinking about the future, with Martin, Short and Gomez in a neighborhood community in Los Angeles?
At the moment, the filming of the fourth season is underway as the protagonists and producers have published on social networks.
