Murder is Easy: BBC Greenlight’s first Agatha Christie project in the post-Sarah Phelps era

The BBC unveiled its first Agatha Christie Adaptation in the post-Sarah Phelps era.

Playwright Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre writes murder is easy for BBC One and BritBox International, following a quintet of Phelps-penned Christie adaptations over the past decade: And then there was no more, The witness for the prosecution, trial by innocence And The ABC murdersin which actors such as John Malkovich have played.

Produced by Mammoth Screen, supported by ITV Studios and Agatha Christie Limited and directed by Meenu Gaur (Zinda Bahague, world on fire), The twins follow a man who, on a train to London, meets a woman who tells him a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English town of Wychwood, below Ashe.

The villagers believe the deaths are just accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and when she is later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Luke feels he must find the killer before they can strike again.

“I looked forward to every adaptation of Agatha Christie because Christie wrote for the world and the whole world loves her,” said Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, who added that she had never read any of the author’s award-winning novels. not.

“When I first read murder is easy, I couldn’t believe how bold, experimental and furious the book was. Nothing like I expected.”

BBC drama director Lindsay Salt said the adaptation “speaks to us today and honors us [Christie’s] incredible talent for brilliantly entertaining, expertly told mysteries.

Co-producer BritBox is also working on a Christie adaptation directed by Hugh Laurie Why didn’t you ask Evans? and recent remakes for the big screen Death on the Nile And murder on the orient express, with Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot.

murder is easy was adapted by Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, directed by Gaur and produced by Karen Kelly. Executive producers are Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, James Prichard for Agatha Christie Limited, Damien Timmer and James Gandhi for Mammoth Screen, Jenny Frayn for the BBC and Reemah Sakaan and Stephen Nye for BritBox International.

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