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EXCLUSIVE: The self-proclaimed “greatest detective successful nan world” is astir to get his latest surface incarnation. Deadline tin uncover that nan BBC has committed to reimagining Hercule Poirot successful a awesome tv bid based connected nan beloved novels of Agatha Christie.
Sources said nan British broadcaster secured nan adjustment successful a highly competitory situation, pinch different networks and streamers bidding. The BBC is understood to person made a important committedness to nan project, meaning it could tally for up to 3 seasons complete nan coming years. Season 1 is expected to premiere successful nan 2nd half of 2027.
Deadline hears that nan Poirot reboot is housed astatine Mammoth Screen, which has a agelong way grounds of adapting Christie’s work, having produced BBC bid including And Then There Were None and Murder is Easy. Mammoth laminitis Damien Timmer executive-produced galore episodes of Poirot, nan David Suchet bid that ran for astir 25 years connected ITV.
Responsibility for adapting Christie’s activity has fallen to Benji Walters, a comparatively chartless writer who has credits connected BBC bid Noughts + Crosses and spent clip processing an adjustment of Brideshead Revisited pinch Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino successful 2020. The task was successful pinch nan BBC and HBO, but yet ne'er made it to nan screen.
Sources said Walters has breathed caller life into nan fictional Belgian detective, but book specifications are presently being kept nether wraps. The adaptation, which will beryllium produced pinch Agatha Christie Limited, is expected to beryllium filmed successful Liverpool and nan north-west of England complete nan summer.
The hunt for Poirot, Christie’s astir celebrated and longest-running character, is underway. The domiciled will apt pull important interest, pinch respective high-profile actors portraying nan detective complete nan years. British audiences will subordinate Poirot pinch Suchet, but he was played by John Malkovich successful nan 2018 constricted bid The ABC Murders (also produced by Mammoth). Kenneth Branagh donned nan detective’s unique moustache successful 2 movies: Murder connected nan Orient Express and Death connected nan Nile.
Poirot appeared successful 33 novels and 51 short stories, comprising immoderate of Christie’s astir celebrated work. The Christie canon is arsenic successful request arsenic ever. Netflix precocious streamed Seven Dials, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Mia McKenna Bruce, while BritBox is readying to bring crime-fighting mates Tommy and Tuppence backmost to TV successful Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence.
The BBC declined to comment.
