PerDeadline, BBC just announced that a two-part adaptation ofAgatha Christie’sMurder Is Easyis now in development. The London-based broadcasting company will partner with iPlayer and BritBox International to produce the adaptation. ITV Studios' Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited are set to produce the thriller episodes for the project.
The adaptation will be getting two hour-long episodes directed by Meenu Gaur. It will be written by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and is scheduled to start filming this summer. The details of the ensemble cast for the adaptation are yet to be announced.Murder Is Easyadaptation can be added to thesuperb adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classics.
Meenu Gaur and Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre are collaborating to create the novel’s screen adaptation. Both of them are excited to work on the project since they are both fans of Agatha Christie’s works.
Ejiwunmi-Le Berre tells BBC, “I’ve watched every Agatha Christie adaptation out, because Christie wrote for the world, and the whole world loves her back. But somehow I’d never read one of her novels. When I first read Murder Is Easy, I couldn’t believe how daring, experimental and furious the book was. Nothing like I’d expected. From the first read, the book was shouting at me how to enter and adapt it.”
Gaur chimed in and said, “I am part of the worldwide club of Agatha Christie’s fans and followers and therefore thrilled to be shaping one of her works for the screen. I was drawn to the sassy, cool, witty and not to be messed with women of Murder Is Easy and blown away again by how delightful her characters are.”
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An Extraordinary Adaptation That Will Delight The Viewers
Murder Is Easy will be the latest addition to the long list of adaptations made by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited for the BBC. They have previously madeAnd Then There Were None, The Witness For The Prosecution, Ordeal By Innocence,The ABCMurders,andThe Pale Horsefor the broadcasting network.
As per BBC, the plot description reads: “On a train to London, a man going by the name of Luke Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and when she’s later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Luke feels he must find the killer before they can strike again. Because for a certain kind of person, murder is easy… .”
