cast in new Christie film adaptation of Crooked House

We have to thank the latest And Then There Were None series by the BBC for that and Kenneth Branagh for helming a potentially star studded remake of Murder of the Orient Express. It's reignited a Hollywood interest in the works of Agatha Christie. To date we have:

Another adaptation of the And Then There Were None produced by Fox
Murder on the Orient Express directed and starring Kenneth Branagh
Witness For The Prosecution directed and starring Ben Affleck
and Crooked House which is my favourite Christie book.

Give it at most a few more years and I expect there'll be a remake of Endless Night and Towards Zero maybe The Man In The Brown Suit.

Charles Father and Eustace are uncertains as they are two characters that could afford to be cut from the plot. In the BBC radio 4 adaptation they gave Sir Hayworth's part essentially to Inspector Taverner and part of Charles character arc was stepping into the shoes of his deceased father's to solve the mystery. Eustace was cut entirely. They could do that with the movie.

Though I always liked the fact that the book ends not with the typical whodunit resolution where everyone goes on their merry way after the murderer is revealed. The final moments are between Charles and his Father discussing the nature of criminal behaviour and his father revealing he had suspected the murderer for some time even the last line poor child is very haunting. Tragic. It's not a "happy ending" yes Charles can marry Sophia but the family are changed forever and they don't even know it. Sophia and Charles know that the family's corruption or "crookedness" and ruthlessness has evolved into creating the monster that Josephine was- that is the level of cruelty and pyscopathy to which the family is capable of. It's a disconcerting thought for a soon to be married couple especially if they want to have children. As they don't know for sure whether the child will inherit the best qualities of the family which are in Sophia- the strength, loyalty, devotion and generously or the worst that came crashing down into Josephine- cruelty, selfishness, manipulation a disregard for human life. AND the worst part is they can never tell anyone so the family will live out their days thinking Edith did it and not valuing the sacrifice she made so the family will go on as they are with only Charles and Sophia as a last hope to break the pattern. It's bittersweet to say the least. The final moments of the book do sort of highlight this so it would be nice to keep that relationship with Charles and his Father in there. To highlight it.

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The cast list is certainly coming along. Looks like all they need to cast is someone to play Roger, his wife Clemency, Philip the second son, Brenda's lover Laurence Brown, Charles' father Sir Arthur Hayward, Janet Rowe the children's nanny, and finally the murder victim Aristide Leonides. I wonder who would be perfect to play that part. Anyway hope there will be continuing updates to fill up the remaining characters from the original novel.