There are authors who write novels already dreaming of seeing them transferred to the screen. It was not the case Christie Agatha, who was not always happy with the adaptations made of her books, since she is perhaps the writer whose works we have seen the most on film and television, thanks to her keen eye for intrigue. In her native Great Britain, you are practically nobody in the world of interpretation if you have not participated in a title based on the pieces of the great lady of mystery. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Albert Finney… There are many fellow actors of this brilliant woman who have been suspected or who have investigated the intricate murders that arose from her mind even when she was engaged in the most innocuous tasks. “The best crimes for my novels have occurred to me washing dishes. Washing dishes turns anyone into a homicidal maniac of category,” she confessed.
The French have been versioning their works for years in ‘The Little Agatha Christie Murders’a series that has been set in the 30s, 50s and 60s and whose third season premiered on the channel this Wednesday, March 16 (10:00 p.m.) Cosmonow with mysteries from the 70s. The fiction stars a competent curator (Emilie Gavois-Kahn) who, between bell bottoms and psychedelia, must deal with murderers and, incidentally, with the machismo of his team.
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And next April 15, Hugh Laurie direct and adapt ‘Agatha Christie: Why Don’t They Ask Evans?’ in a new three-episode miniseries offered by Movistar +.
But if you are a lover of Christie’s cases, and taking advantage of the fact that the new version of ‘Death on the Nile’ It hasn’t been in theaters for even a month, here we propose a guide to see the best series based on his works. Considering that films like ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ (1957) by Billy Wilder; ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (1974), by Sidney Lumet; and ‘Death on the Nile’ (1978), by John Guillermin, are on Filmin; ‘The Crooked House’ (2017), by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, on Amazon, and the new ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017), by Kenneth Branagh, on Disney+. to play the Cluedo from the sofa at home.
‘Agatha Christie: Why Don’t They Ask Evans?’
Hugh Laurie, the irascible doctor House and great admirer of the work of the British author, directs and performs ‘Agatha Christie: Why don’t you ask Evans?’, miniseries based on one of his police novels. Composed of three episodes, Movistar Plus+ It will be released on April 15, two days after the UK. The protagonists are the son of a local vicar (Will Poulter) and his intelligent friend, the socialite Lady Frances ‘Frankie’ Derwent (Lucy Boynton, ‘The politician’, ‘Modern love’). They both try to solve a crime after he discovers the tumbled body of a dying man who, with his dying breath, gasps out the cryptic question of the title. Hugh Laurie, emma thompson Y Jim Broadbent They complete the cast. Besides, the movies ‘Agatha and the curse of Ihstar’ Y ‘Agatha and the Midnight Murders’ will premiere on Sundays April 10 and 17 on Movistar +.
Year: 2022
Where to watch: Movistar+
Twelve seasons the actor spent David Suchett in the skin of the punctilious Belgian detective addicted to herbal teas in this brilliant series from the British network ITV. With the good old Hastings (Hugh Fraser), Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard (Phillip Jackson) and the efficient Miss Lemon (Pauline Moran) by his side, there was no criminal who could resist him, not even when in the last chapters he was already bedridden. There are short episodes, but most are practically movies, lasting an hour and a half, with an impeccable setting.
Year: 1989-2013
Where to watch: Filmin and Amazon Prime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqP_nbBc9vs
Don’t let its appearance fool you naive and innocent old lady, because Miss Marple does not miss one. The other great character of Agatha Christie, that granny who catches criminals while taking care of her rose bushes in the English countryside, was also brought to the small screen by the same ‘Poirot’ team. With Geraldine McEwan as the protagonist, who was replaced by JJulia McKenzie as of the fourth season.
Year: 2004-2013
Where to watch: Filmin (two seasons) and Amazon Prime (three seasons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWk53wurkbE
The best-selling crime novel of all time, with 100 million copies, has been made into a film on several occasions, but on television this careful adaptation stands out, which the British BBC premiered to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great lady of mystery . In its three addictive episodes, 10 characters who apparently have nothing in common are summoned by a mysterious host to an isolated island where, little by little, they will die one by one. With aidan turner (‘Poldark’), Miranda Richardson (‘Dead Boss’), Charles Dance (‘Game of Thrones’), Douglas Booth (‘The pillars of the earth’), Maeve Dermody (‘Beautiful Kate’), Burn Gorman (‘Torchwood’), Anna Maxwell-Martin (‘The Bletchley Circle’), Sam Neil (‘Peaky Blinders’), Toby Stephens (‘Lost in space’) and noah taylor (‘Preacher’).
Year: 2015
Where to see: Until recently it has been available on Movistar +
In her autobiography, Agatha Christie confessed that it was one of her favorite books to write, and this three-episode BBC miniseries capitalized on it. On Christmas 1954, a wealthy philanthropist is murdered and her adopted son is jailed for the crime. When a scientist who has just returned from an expedition to the Arctic claims to have the alibi that can prove the boy’s innocence, it is already too late, because he died in prison. The widower, who is about to remarry, and the rest of his children are reluctant to unearth the secrets of the past. With bill nighty (‘Love Actually’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’) and matthew goode (‘Match Point’, ‘Downtown Abbey’), or Anna Chancellor ( ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’)
Year: 2018
Where to watch: Movistar+
The same team from ’10 Little Blacks’ and ‘Tragic Innocence’ is behind this two-episode BBC adaptation of the short story ‘The witness for the prosecution’, what billy wilder It had already been brought to the screen in 1957 with stars such as Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton. The murder of a rich widow (Kim Cattrall) puts the young man to whom he had just left the entire inheritance in the spotlight of the police in this ‘thriller’ full of unexpected plot twists.
Year: 2016
Where to see: Until recently it was available on Movistar +
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQENrdXQrLg
The mystery of the railway guide
John Malkovich embodies the legendary detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the British network BBC, of three episodes, by the scriptwriter Sarah Phelps (‘Tragic Innocence’, ’10 little blacks’, ‘A Very British Scandal’). chase a murderer who kills his victims in alphabetical order and who, next to the corpse, leaves a copy of the railway guide.
Year: 2018
Where to watch: Movistar+
The Pale Horse Mystery
Another of the miniseries successfully adapted by the scriptwriter Sarah Phelps, which seasons with touches of supernatural terror. Over two episodes, Rufus Sewell plays a widower who appears on a mysterious list found in the shoe of a woman who has just passed away. All the people who came out with him on the same list die little by little, which unleashes paranoia. His investigations lead him to a picturesque town inhabited by three mysterious women who are branded as witches.
Year: 2020
Where to watch: Movistar+
Francesca Annis Y james warwick play the detective duo Tommy and Tuppeence in this series based on the 1929 novel of the same name. It consists of 11 chapters and won an Emmy award.
Year: 1983
Where to see: Filmin