LONDON (AP) — The scene: Outdoors a stately English residence, a person and a lady makes an attempt to unravel a thriller. What’s uncommon about this image?
They’re utilizing the web.
In a departure from what might be the logline for a lot of a comfortable English thriller earlier than it, “Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence” marks the primary time Agatha Christie’s work has been modernized for an English-speaking TV viewers. On this six-part drama premiering subsequent yr, there are telephones, social media and TikTok alongside the standard murky secrets and techniques, pink herrings and nefarious crimes.
Talking in late October on the set of the BritBox modern sequence taking pictures within the U.Ok., author and government producer Phoebe Eclair-Powell says the makers have been thrilled to get permission from Christie’s property and have been cautious to not “simplify” fixing traditional puzzles, like a locked room thriller, with new tech.
“We have used it, but carefully, sparingly, and when we think actually that it’s enhanced the original story that it’s adapted from,” explains Eclair-Powell.
She says that it’s been a “tricky” a part of the method, however one they hope Christie herself would approve of.
In Japan, Korea, India and Sweden, there have already been Christie characters dwelling within the trendy age, however that is the primary modern adaptation within the creator’s native language.
“Phoebe came to us with a brilliant take on the stories which put them in the modern day and because of the energy & vitality of these characters it felt completely natural to say yes!” Christie’s great-grandson James Prichard, who manages the literary rights to her property, wrote in an e mail.
The Related Press joined stars Antonia Thomas (“The Good Doctor”) and Josh Dylan (“The Buccaneers”) within the library of a seventeenth century mansion. Thomas is delighted to seem on this trendy thriller program, her first as a title character and says followers will benefit from the interpretation as a result of, whereas it’s “grounded and modern,” she and Dylan are nonetheless “capering in a classic Agatha Christie way.”
She additionally hopes that it’ll entice new viewers who would usually be postpone by the interval setting of a extra conventional Christie crime drama.
Dylan describes the modernization as having a “looseness” and “freshness” that makes the miniseries really feel “different.”
Readers of the “Queen of Crime” will acknowledge Tommy and Tuppence as that includes in brief tales and 4 novels spanning from 1922 to 1973 — their tales have been favorites of the creator and aged alongside Christie in every look, in response to her property.
On this model, Tommy is against the law author and Tuppence struggles as an actor, so each are novice sleuths and a will-they-won’t-they vibe permeates their relationship.
Additionally that includes Imelda Staunton as Tommy’s Aunt Ada, manufacturing on “Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence” continues all through November and the present is anticipated to air on BritBox in 2026.
