Agatha Christie’s “Murder is Easy” is set to be adapted into a two-part mini-series for BBC One, iPlayer and BritBox.
Set in 1954 in the English village of Wychwood under Ashe, the story follows Luke Fitzwilliam who meets the curious Miss Pinkerton on a train to London.
She tells him about a series of ‘accidental’ deaths that have taken place in her village and believes them to be the work of a serial killer.
When she later turns up dead herself whilst on the way to visit Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam realizes he needs to find the killer before yet more bodies start piling up.
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre is adapting the novel while Meenu Gaur (“Zinda Bhaag”) to direct and casting has not yet been announced. Mammoth Screen (“The Serpent”) and Agatha Christie Limited will produce the feature which will go into production this Summer ahead of either a late 2023 or early 2024 airing.
The project marks the second of three screen adaptations Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Limited are doing for BritBox, the first being the three-part Hugh Laurie and Will Poulter-led “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” which aired last year. What the third Christie screen adaptation will be has not yet been announced.
Both companies previously collaborated on the celebrated 2015 “And Then There Were None” mini-series for the BBC.
The story was previously adapted for TV twice – in 1992 stirring Bill Bixby as Luke, and in 2009 as an episode of the Julia McKenzie-led “Marple” TV series with that very loosely based version starring a young Benedict Cumberbatch as Luke.
Source: Britbox
