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AGATHA CHRISTIE BY DISNEY!!! OH DEAR....

posted 13 years ago by GladysThong
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"Disney will be making several films based on the works of Agatha Christie. Julie Andrews, Gemma Arterton, Matthew Goode, and Gabriel Byrne have signed on to star in an adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Crooked House. In the murder mystery is set against “the backdrop of three generations of a family that lives together in a large and seemingly crooked house.” Every member of the eccentric family has motive to have killed the multimillionaire patriarch, Aristide Leonide. Neil LaBute (Death at a Funeral) will direct from a script by Julian Fellowes (The Tourist) and Tim Rose Price (The Serpent’s Kiss). The $20 million production is scheduled to shoot this summer in the U.K."

I can't help thinking this is going to be just like those U.S Agatha Christies made in the 1980's. I'm sorry...but Yanks just cannot - CANNOT - do Agatha Christie stories justice.

Hurrah that it has Julian Fellowes as writer - but being funded by Disney you can see it now can't you?...that odd mix between 'We'll I can see that it is shot in a British stately home, but why is Julie Andrews saying 'gee' and 'burglarize'?

[–] endeegee1002 13 years ago

I sure hope that they do not change the story line from the book (like those of the Marple series)by changing the motive/ the murderer etc. This is one of the BEST Christie's Novel.

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[–] glasha-1 13 years ago

This film has nothing to do with Disney.
You are thinking about Disney's Miss Maprle reboot with Jennifer Garner.

FYC: Three-time Academy Awards nominee Angela Lansbury for an Honorary Oscar

[–] ChimneyBert 13 years ago

What glasha-1 said.

[–] avenger-16 12 years ago

One good thing - the cast so far are all English or Irish, so if it goes ahead at least it will not have American actors in it trying to do British accents. Julian Fellowes generally does a good job with directing too.

I am hoping that it will be quite good.

[–] ulrika333 12 years ago

Well, if the Yanks could produce Witness for the Prosecution & And Then There Were None there is the possibility that this could be good.

In addition, most of those 1980s film adaptations of Agatha Christie novels were either British productions, British-US co-productions, or British-US-Australian co-productions.

How about making better arguments next time, GladysThong?

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