Production company Wiip has hired “The Book of Ruth” writers Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham to develop a TV Series about the teenage years of the most successful novelist of all time – Agatha Christie.
Set in the early 1900s in Devon, England, the project is titled “Young Agatha” and is being described as an “action-packed drama” and “dynamic and supercharged coming-of-age story”.
The series will follow how a precocious teenager, mourning her father’s death, became the most groundbreaking and beloved mystery author in history – all unfolding with an “empowering and adventurous take” on the source material.
Christie of course famously created genre-defining detectives including Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Her books also invented many of the tropes and twist endings that still dominate mystery and thriller books and films today though many of these were considered subversive at the time.
These included the unreliable (and guilty) narrator, the one deliberate murder hidden among a spree to appear random, that every suspect was guilty, that the way too obvious suspect really was guilty, that one of the victims is guilty, that the supposed intended target was guilty, and that one of the investigators is guilty.
Short of Shakespeare, she remains the best-selling author in history with around 2-4 billion of her 85 books sold. To put that in comparison, J.K. Rowling and Stephen King’s collected sales are around 500 million and 350 million respectively.
Pollock and Graham, Paul Lee, David Flynn and Josh Stern will executive produce.
Source: Deadline
