Agatha Christie: Time for a rest?

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Kenneth B having another go with the silly moustache.
Did I see that Emma Thomson is doing a new version of "Why didn't they ask Evans?"
Why? Do they think it is easy money? TV repeats will be a nice little top up for the pension.
They will all be entirely off the pace, long lingering shots of 'clever' interiors and artfully positioned props.
Stop it.

I totally agree. Some of the recent adaptations have been atrocious - I haven’t seen the KB films as I love the originals and assume it’s style over substance (just my opinion!). You’ve only got to look at KB’s ridiculous moustache.

The BBC adaptations were so far removed from the actual plots, they might as well have had different characters and called it something else. It absolutely is cashing in on Christie’s reputation. Her grandson has basically sold out.

I' glad there's more being made. They stopped for a while.

Having said that, I would be open to new versions that faithfully stick to the plots! But you just know it’s not going to be the case.

I guess they keep making them because they think that there are plenty of people who are willing to pay to watch them. Like so many other films tbh.

If you're not interested, then you don't have to watch.

Hear hear, enough of the Agathas please. I don't know why they're considered to be so attractive, maybe it's because they're fairly simple narratives with a twist at the end? Although this year BBC? made A Pale Horse, with Rufus Sewell, which hadn't been done before and was thus a novelty. She wrote so much. Why yet another Orient Express? It's been done to death, excuse pun.

@Crackercrazy & others
I can accept the insertion of Miss Marple as a way of telling the story.
Last night "Sleeping Murder" on tv, was close to original (I think).
But one of them had a single woman and a suitor in a tweed suit and driving a Morris Minor Traveller.

What was the story that stuffed into the plot Phil Davis with a nice accent as a psychiatrist?

Valid point OP, I'm not going to watch any.

I don't know why they keep re making the same ones, they were not even her best books. There are 80 odd books and all the ever make is a repeat of Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express !!

I wish they'd adapt Dorothy L Sayers. I know the BBC did some over 30 years ago, but I'd love to see Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane brought to life again.
I wish they wouldn't just do animations of the same books and again and again when there's so much other material to mine.

Cat Amongst the Pigeons was one of my favourites. That and some of the early Miss Marple like Body in the Library.

I refused to watch them on the principal that David Suchet is poirot. And I won't watch any other version of Sherlock Holmes, than Jeremy Brett.

@Toddlerteaplease

I refused to watch them on the principal that David Suchet is poirot. And I won't watch any other version of Sherlock Holmes, than Jeremy Brett.

And Joan Hickson IS Miss Marple.

@KookaburraSits

I wish they'd adapt Dorothy L Sayers. I know the BBC did some over 30 years ago, but I'd love to see Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane brought to life again. I wish they wouldn't just do animations of the same books and again and again when there's so much other material to mine.

Yes. That would be awesome. Especially the Jill Paton Walsh books.

@Comefromaway absolutely!!

And Edward Petherbridhge Harriet Walters are Peter and Harriet.

I shall have to watch the new Death on the Nile one because my friend is in it

wouldn't bother otherwise

@Toddlerteaplease

And Edward Petherbridhge Harriet Walters are Peter and Harriet.

Yes! Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night are on YouTube. They're just wonderful.

On you tube?!!!! O thank you Kookaburra

@longwayoff

On you tube?!!!! O thank you Kookaburra

You're welcome!

Joan Hickson IS Miss Marple, agreed. Also: Miss Marple is MISS Marple, not Marple.

I hope the BBC never has a crack at a new style approach to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which is my favourite and her masterpiece.

Why anybody would ever think they could improve on the 1974 Murder of the Orient Express baffles me.

See also: the Coen Brothers (whose work I mostly adore) having a crack at remaking The Ladykillers.

That sounds worrying Gaspode how bad is it? That - the original - is one of my favourites. Is it worth a look?

It was quite a few years ago. They transposed it to the US and Tom Hanks took on the Alec Guinness role. I love him, but he didn't work.

Sorry, it didn't work.Tom worked hard!

@Toddlerteaplease

And Edward Petherbridhge Harriet Walters are Peter and Harriet.

Exactly. I only wish Edward Petherbridge had starred in all the adaptations - Ian Carmichael never worked as Lord Peter.

Some of the J Paton-Walsh ones have been on radio. Ian Carmichael seemed OK in that.
The death of Gerald, so Peter becomes becomes the Duke. Bunter's marriage is another.
Did anyone find Edward Petherbridge made Peter not a strong enough personality. Wimsey was never diffident.

Campion also deserves an update. But a problem there (I think) is the attitudes, servants and so on, of the late 1920s