The BBC is to film the novel “Murder Is Easy” (1939) by English detective writer Agatha Christie, The Hollywood Reporter writes.
The film is directed by British-Indian filmmaker Meenu Gaur (World on Fire). She is going to make a two-part movie based on the popular book. Each episode will last 60 minutes.
Murder Is Easy stars Penelope Wilton from Downton Abbey, David Jonsson, Douglas Ganshall, Morfydd Clarke and others.
“I’m a member of the worldwide Agatha Christie fan club, so I’m very happy to have the opportunity to adapt one of her works for film. In Murder Is Easy, I was drawn to the sassy, cool, witty women – I was once again struck by how wonderful her characters are,” Meenu Gaur was quoted as saying.
The story takes place in England in 1954. Ex-police officer Luke Fitzwilliam, traveling by train to London, talks to an upwardly mobile lady named Pinkerton. She is on her way to Scotland Yard because she knows about a series of murders in her small town of Wychwood. She even tells us the name of the next victim.
Fitzwilliam does not believe her, and later learns that Pinkerton was hit by a car. The man she named is also dead. The policeman goes to Wychwood under the guise of a folklore collector.
In the mid-1980s, the novel Murder Is Easy was already adapted into the Agatha Christie detective series. Then, in the 2000s, the TV series Marple was filmed, where Luke Fitzwilliam was played by Benedict Cumberbatch, a little-known actor at the time.
The BBC has already filmed several books by Agatha Christie. Among them: “And Then There Were None”, “Witness for the Prosecution”, “Ordeal by Innocence”, “The A.B.C. Murders” and “The Pale Horse”.
