While Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov's cinematic takes have divided fans, there's no doubt that when it comes to Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot there is only one man who has given what is considered the definitive portrayal - David Suchet.
Having inhabited the character since 1989, Suchet and many Christie fans were keen to see him film all of the novels and short stories featuring Poirot. Earlier this year however it looked like the last telemovies required to complete this ambition would not be put into production due to budgetary cutbacks at ITV.
Now though comes the official word (via Digital Spy) that ITV has recommissioned "Poirot" for a final series. The five new Christie adaptations will include 'Labours of Hercules', 'Dead Man's Folly', 'The Big Four', 'Elephants Can Remember' and the Belgian detective's infamous final story 'Curtain'. Production on the final five telemovies will commence next year.
Having inhabited the character since 1989, Suchet and many Christie fans were keen to see him film all of the novels and short stories featuring Poirot. Earlier this year however it looked like the last telemovies required to complete this ambition would not be put into production due to budgetary cutbacks at ITV.
Now though comes the official word (via Digital Spy) that ITV has recommissioned "Poirot" for a final series. The five new Christie adaptations will include 'Labours of Hercules', 'Dead Man's Folly', 'The Big Four', 'Elephants Can Remember' and the Belgian detective's infamous final story 'Curtain'. Production on the final five telemovies will commence next year.
- 11/15/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
ITV has announced that Marple will return in a new series of three films. Julia McKenzie will reprise the title role in adaptations of Agatha Christie's 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Endless Night' and 'The Seven Dials Mystery'. The first film will begin filming in summer 2012, while the latter two will enter production in the autumn. "It's a huge privilege for me to play Miss Marple," said McKenzie. "I love her shrewd intelligence, and yet she has a warmth and a sweetness that is so disarming. "I find it stimulating watching how her insights into human nature can unlock (more)...
- 11/14/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
More than 4m copies of Agatha Christie's 80 whodunnits are bought around the world every year. But is she really as good as her fans say, or have they just lost the plot?
To me, they're not so much whodunnits as idontgeddits. I have tried many times over the years to get into Agatha Christie's books. It should be easy. I'm an omnivorous (if you're being polite; undiscriminating if you're not) reader. I am no fan of the modern world and particularly not of the gore that increasingly besplatters it whenever the words "murder mystery" or "crime fiction" heave into view.
But I have always found Christie unreadable. Frank Skinner in his autobiography explains that he can't enjoy fiction – any fiction – because the minute he opens a book to read "Alan walked into the room", he thinks, "No, he didn't. There was no Alan. There is no room. You...
To me, they're not so much whodunnits as idontgeddits. I have tried many times over the years to get into Agatha Christie's books. It should be easy. I'm an omnivorous (if you're being polite; undiscriminating if you're not) reader. I am no fan of the modern world and particularly not of the gore that increasingly besplatters it whenever the words "murder mystery" or "crime fiction" heave into view.
But I have always found Christie unreadable. Frank Skinner in his autobiography explains that he can't enjoy fiction – any fiction – because the minute he opens a book to read "Alan walked into the room", he thinks, "No, he didn't. There was no Alan. There is no room. You...
- 10/1/2010
- by Lucy Mangan
- The Guardian - Film News
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