![]() ![]() Besides the usual romp to find a killer before he finds you, the book also grapples with the idea of justice. If this all sounds like a gripping page-turner, you’d be right: And Then There Were None is a classic mystery that’ll keep you on your toes and have you looking over your shoulder while you’re reading it.īut it’s not all fun and games. (It was a different and uglier time.) One by one, each of the guests is accused of a different murder and then slowly picked off in accordance with an old nursery rhyme about “ ten little soldiers.”Īs the characters race to figure out who among them is the culprit, we have to try to piece together the clues, red herrings, and that frustrating and creepy poem. That’s the basic setup for one of mystery writer Agatha Christie’s best-known and oft-parodied works, And Then There Were None, originally titled (NSFW language) Ten Little Indians or Ten Little N*****s. Turns out, you’re actually here for a game. Only it looks like your definition of “party” might be just a wee bit different from your hosts. Because that’s not creepy.Īnyway, bring out the glowsticks and fizzy drinks, because you are here to paaaartay. I love a good Agatha Christie murder mystery and I’ll be looking forward to seeing this great story of hers brought to life.Welcome! You and nine strangers have just arrived in a mansion on an isolated island, having received invitations from various acquaintances or someone named U.N. “It was so difficult to do,” she writes, “that the idea had fascinated me.” It was an idea which is now the basis for many Hollywood horror films and has become a cliché to modern audiences, but it was Agatha Christie who was the first to do it and so successfully that the story has become her most adapted piece. This is the story that made Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist of all time and is read the world over in more than 50 languages. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in each room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’. The strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. Each of them has a secret to hide and a crime for which they must pay. Ten strangers arrive on an island invited by an unknown host. Here’s a more detailed description of the story: The writing team most recently adapted Dame Daphne Du Maurier’s classic gothic novel, Rebecca, for Netflix and Working Title. Shrapnel and Waterhouse previously worked on Captain Marvel and are also developing a new film project with Legendary Pictures titled The Great Machine, which is based on the Brian K. This will be a completely separate project. This new film will not be connected to those Hercule Poirot mysteries. Kenneth Branagh directed 20th Century’s adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, and is currently working on Death on the Nile. ![]() The project will be developed by Seberg screenwriters and husband-and-wife writing partners Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel.ĭisney, and producer Shawn Levy ( Stranger Things) plan on keeping the story in its pre-World War II setting, which is the period when Christie wrote the novel, but the film will have a fresh take on the story.Ĭhristie’s novel tells the story of “10 seemingly disparate individuals invited to an isolated island, with the house guests murdered one by one during the course of their stay.” ![]() ![]() 20th Century Studios and Disney are producing another Agatha Christie adaptation and this one is for the classic novel And Then There Were None. ![]()
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