The BBC is creating a fresh television series based on Agatha Christie’s novels, starring the iconic detective Hercule Poirot. This new version, coming next year, will be another take on the character, previously known for being portrayed by David Suchet.
The BBC won a competitive bid to adapt more of Agatha Christie’s work, according to Deadline. With Christie’s stories gaining popularity – as seen with Netflix’s recent adaptation of Seven Dials – the BBC is making a substantial investment in a new series that could potentially run for three seasons.
The BBC declined to comment on the new Poirot adaptation when approached by Digital Spy.
The first season of the show is planned to debut in late 2027, and Benji Walters will be leading the writing team. Walters previously worked on Noughts + Cross and was also attached to a planned adaptation of Brideshead Revisited by Luca Guadagnino, though that project didn’t come to fruition.
The scripts for the new television adaptation are being kept secret. Filming is scheduled to begin this summer in Liverpool and other locations throughout the north-west of England, in collaboration with Agatha Christie Limited.
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Mammoth Screen, the company behind successful BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie’s works like And Then There Were None and Murder is Easy, is producing this project. Mammoth Screen’s founder, Damien Timmer, also worked as an executive producer on many episodes of the long-running ITV series Poirot, starring David Suchet.
Hercule Poirot, famously played recently by Kenneth Branagh in movies like Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and A Haunting in Venice, is a highly sought-after role, and casting for the part is now beginning.
John Malkovich portrayed the famous detective, who often calls himself the “greatest in the world,” in the 2018 miniseries The ABC Murders. Mammoth also produced this series.
Felicity Jones will star as Agatha Christie in a new thriller called Eleven Missing Days. The film is based on the real-life mystery of the famous author’s eleven-day disappearance in 1926.
Although the movie doesn’t include Hercule Poirot, Christie’s well-known detective, it will star Vincent Cassel as a Belgian police officer brought back from retirement to solve a new mystery. This character is designed to be similar to Poirot.
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